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How to Pitch: AARP The Magazine

If you've got stories suited to the 50-and-over set, welcome to your dream outlet: Entirely freelance-written, it has the world's largest magazine readership and pays well above most mags' per-word rate

By Noah Davis – August 11, 2006

Circulation: 22 million
Frequency: Bimonthly
Special issues: None that recur from year to year, but issues are often themed: The 2006 September/October issue, for instance, has a package of articles on living longer.

Background: When Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (now known simply as "AARP"), started Modern Maturity magazine at her kitchen table in 1958, she had no way of knowing ...

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