Posts Tagged ‘case study’

Latest Story Requests: 16/11/2009

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Latest Story Requests.

Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to submit your interest in appearing in a magazine or newspaper story.

UPDATED DAILY

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Story / Case Study Wanted: Oldest sibling in a very large family.

Media Outlet: UK Glossy Magazine.

More Info: We are looking to speak to the oldest siblings of big families (6 plus children) about their experiences of growing up in a large family. Those with particularly strong feelings (i.e. they loved, or hated being the oldest) would be ideal. If you think you can help, please submit a brief description of the family, along with a photo and phone number at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk.  All case studies that are printed in the magazine will be paid generously!

Story / Case Study Criteria: Ideally between the age of 15-20.

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Popular women’s weekly looking for three generations of young mums in one family.

Media Outlet: UK Women’s Magazine.

More Info: We are looking to interview a family containing three generations of young mums. We would like to speak to the grandma, mother and daughter about their experiences of having children young (ideally in their teenage years) and also of being brought up by a young mother. All case studies we use will be paid generously. If you think you might be able to help then please fill out the www.FamousFeatures.co.uk online form with a brief description of your family and a pic if possible!

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Woman who called off her own wedding.

Media Outlet: Sunday Newspaper Supplement.

More info: We are URGENTLY looking for a woman who called off her own wedding. Ideally it was very close to the date of the wedding, all the arrangements were in place eg. dress bought, venue booked, invites sent out, and she decided, for whatever reason, she couldn’t go through with it. We can pay a substantial fee for a suitable case study and will not identify her ex.

Story / Case Study Criteria: 19-38. Female.

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: We are looking for any stories related to pantomimes for our Christmas issue.

Media Outlet: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More Info: We are looking for any pantomime-themed short features for our Christmas issue. They can’t be romantic or to do with relationships so anything like a panto disaster or anything funny or quirky to do with pantos would be great. Something like a woman who was told to ‘break a leg’ before she went on stage and then she did, would be perfect!

Story / Case Study Criteria: It has to be told from a woman aged between 18 and 35.

Stories Wanted: 11/11/2009

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Latest story requests from the national magazines and newspapers. Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk if you would like to sell a story to the national press.  If you fit one of the profiles below, you could earn cash today.

UPDATED DAILY

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Story Wanted: Any girls who’ve had a Christmas Accident.

Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.

More Article Info:  We are working on a feature about Christmas accidents and are looking for any girls who’ve burnt themselves making xmas dinner, choked on a piece of turkey, electrocuted themselves with fairy lights etc! The sillier the stories the better!

Special Criteria: Female 18-35.

 

Story Wanted: Daughter of an alcoholic.

Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.

More Article Info: Looking for a story about the daughter of an alcoholic. Must be happy to be named and photographed. We can assure you their story will be handled sensitively. Aged 25 – 55. For a real-life story in a glossy magazine.

 

Story Wanted: Santa impersonators with a girlfriend/wife.

Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.

More Article Info: We are looking for the partner of a Santa impersonator who can talk about falling in love with Santa.

Special criteria: Women aged 18-60.

 

Story Wanted: Looking for girls who’ve had near death experiences.

Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.

More Story Info: We are working on a feature about people who’ve had near death experiences. It could be someone who was in a car crash and brought back to life, or someone who drowned and was resuscitated. We are interested in any brushes with death!

Special criteria: Must be female, aged 18-35.

Stories Wanted – 10/11/2009

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Stories Wanted by Magazines & Newspapers Today (UPDATED DAILY). Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to submit your details if you are interested in earning money from appearing in the national media.

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Story / Case Study Wanted: British lady who admits to shoplifting in the past to fund her ‘middle-class’ lifestyle.

Media Outlet: Daily Newspaper.

More Info: Woman – aged 25-55. Must NOT be shoplifting now but needs to admit to it in past. For a real-life read in Daily Newspaper.

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Funny, quirky real-life features to hold a page.

Media Outlet: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More Info: We are after some fun and quirky features that will hold a page in a women’s magazine.  Do you have any comedy capers that might make a full page story? We are looking for stories of daft animals, anything involving nakedness (eg: sleep-walked into my girlfriend’s parent\’s room the first night I’d met them), a girl who chooses her pet over her boyfriend, or anything that raises a chuckle!

 

Story / Case Study Wanted: Age gap case study: Older woman, Younger man, preferably with around 30 years between them.

Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.

More info: Couple with large age gap must be available for phone interview and willing to provide/pose for photographs, ASAP.

Stories Wanted: 9/11/2009

Monday, November 9th, 2009

The latest story requests from National Magazines and Newspapers.  If you would like to appear in the press, send us your details at: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

Story / Case Study Wanted: NEW YEAR themed stories.

Newspaper or Magazine Outlet: To appear in a National Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More Info: We are looking for any funny, dramatic, medical, or love stories with a NEW YEAR theme.

Case Study Criteria: Women aged 17-70

Story / Case Study Wanted: Polydrug User.

Newspaper or Magazine Outlet: National Sunday Newspaper.

Story / Case Study Info: We are looking for a young woman who risked her health/life taking lots of different types of drugs. Eg she would take cocaine on a night out then need to smoke a joint or take a sleeping pill to come down off her high and get to sleep. Then she would need to take speed or more coke the next morning to get going again, We want to hear what a rollercoaster it was for her, is she regretful/realise how lucky she is not to have seriously harmed herself, or does she see it as part of growing up?

Case Study Criteria: Age 18-35.

 

Story Wanted: Young female who mixed coke with alcohol, had cardiac reaction OR engaged in antisocial behaviour.

Media Outlet: National Sunday Newspaper.

More Info: We are looking for a young woman who mixed cocaine with alcohol and either ended up suffering from a cardiac related side effect OR engaged in anti-social behaviour eg she got into a fight/attacked another person. We can pay a generous fee and she must be willing to be identified.

Story Criteria: Female, aged 18-35.

Stories Wanted: 5/11/2009

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Today’s ‘Sell a Story’ Request.  The latest story and case study requests from the National Newspapers and Magazines.

If you fit the profile that we are looking for, fill out the online form at: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

UPDATED DAILY

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Story / Case Study Wanted: Former soldier now retraining in another career.

Story / Case Study Info: We are working on a piece to run next week on ex soldiers who have been injured in the line of duty, and are now retraining in a different career. It’s will be a very straight forward, positive article which will show their determination to carry on. All that would be required is a brief chat on the phone either today (Thurs) or Friday, plus a picture.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Any age. Former soldier. Must be available for pix and chat Thursday or Friday.

Story / Case Study Request: We are looking for case studies / stories about CHRISTMAS MIRACLES.

Media Outlet: Woman’s Weekly Magazine.

Story Request Info: We are looking for any stories / case studies about CHRISTMAS MIRACLES.  These could include last minute Xmas lottery wins, medical marvels, xmas proposals – anything amazing that happened at Christmas.

Stories Wanted: 4/11/2009

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Today’s Story Requests from the National Magazines and Newspapers.

To submit your details please visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

UPDATED DAILY

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Story / Case Study Wanted: The relative of an honour-killing victim.

Newspaper or Magazine: Sunday Newspaper.

More info: Must be female and under 30.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Women to confess to outrageous office party antics.

Newspaper or Magazine: Glossy Women’s Magazine.

More info: For a fun piece on the outrageous things women get up to at office parties.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Case studies have to be women aged 18-40. Although we can have a couple anonymous, most will have to be identified and pictured. Ideal confessions would include:

  • Slept with boss.
  • Pregnant after sleeping with someone at the office party.
  • Spending night in cells.
  • Snogging someone you wouldn’t have looked at twice sober, but have since married.

Basically anything that could be considered confession worthy. Unfortunately we can’t use women who have been in the media before.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Girls who’ve been left with an unwanted pregnancy / STD after a Christmas fling.

Story Info: I’m looking for any girls who’ve had a festive fling and been left with an unwanted present. They may have had an unwanted pregnancy or developed a nasty STD. The case study just needs to be about casual sex at Christmas time and how it’s affected their lives.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Female, aged 18-35.

Story / Case Study Wanted: A woman whose life has dramatically changed through weight loss.

Story Info: For a piece featuring several inspirational weight loss stories.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Needs to be a woman aged 18-40, whose story is not your average diet story. It has to be emotional, inspirational and include an event that shows how losing weight has turned their life around. Such as:

  • Getting a new job.
  • Being able to conceive.
  • Finding love for the first time.
  • Having the confidence to step out the front door for the first time in months/years.
  • Stopped their children from being bullied.

The case study will need to be identified. We will do a glam photo-shoot too. However, we can\’t use women who have already told their story.

Stories Wanted – 3/11/2009

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

We are looking for the following stories to publish in national magazines and newspapers.  If you would like to sell your story, fill out our online form here: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

UPDATED DAILY

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Story / Case Study Wanted: Christmas LOVE stories!

Media Outlet: National Glossy Magazine.

Story or Case Study Criteria: We are looking for Christmas LOVE stories! Have you ever fallen in love with a Santa impersonator, or found your soul mate at a Panto? Any Xmas romantic story considered – and you will be paid for your story.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Children on Diets.

Media outlet: Daily National Newspaper

Story or Case Study Criteria: A normal sized 10 or 11 year-old girl who is dieting and obviously doesn’t need to.

Story / Case Study Wanted: Any type of cheery Christmas stories with good pictures

Media Outlet: Women’s Magazine

More info: We are looking for a variety of Christmas short stories (must be true stories) – weight loss, romance, miracle babies… anything that has really good Christmas pictures and a strong Christmas line.
Story or Case Study Criteria: It must be told by a woman aged between 18-35 who is willing to be pictured.

Story Request 30/10/09

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Here are the latest story requests from the National Newspapers and Magazines.  If you fit any of the profiles, or you would like to sell a different story to the national press, submit your story idea here: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

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Magazine Story or Case Study Wanted: Women with Facebook/MySpace/Twitter horror stories of being approached by strangers online…

More info: This is for a news report following the tragic death of Ashleigh Hall, who was lured to her death by a man posing as a teenage boy on Facebook. We’re looking for women with similar tales – but a happier ending. The incident could have happened to them, or they could have discovered someone was grooming their child online.

Story / Case Study Criteria: Need to be over 18 and ideally under 45. Must be able to supply a pic and be available to chat quickly on the phone.

Magazine Story or Case Study Wanted: We are looking for a woman and her daughter who share a strong physical feature.

More info: For the feature ‘where I get my good looks from’ we are looking for a young woman and her mum who share a strong physical feature. This could be bright red hair, obvious freckles, a mass of curls, big eyes. What’s important is that the mother and daughter are attractive and the feature that they share is strikingly obvious.

Story / Case Study Criteria: One of the women (ie the daughter or mother) needs to be between 30-55.

Magazine Story or Case Study Wanted: A UK-based bride who got married sometime this year at the age of 21 or younger.

More info: We just need to do a short phone interview with her and the groom and will need to use her wedding pics in the piece.  Ideally, it needs to have a good story attached – e.g. her parents thought she was too young to marry, or she got married because she was pregnant etc.

Latest Story Request 28/10/09

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

See the latest story request from the National Newspapers and Magazines below.  If you would like to feature in this article and get paid, or sell any other story – submit your details at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk

Story / Case Study Wanted: Case studies of girls who\’s lives have been affected by soap operas.

Story or Case Study Details: We are looking for three case studies of women who, after watching Coronation Street, Eastenders or any other soap, had a major turning point in their lives. They might have realised they were seriously ill, that their husband was having an affair – anything that can be put down to a similar – recent – story line in one of the soaps.

Case Study Criteria: They need to be women aged between 18 and 40.

National Media Story Requests 27/10/09

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Another three story requests from the national media.

Get paid to appear in the national press.  Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk if you would like to take part in any of these Magazine & Newspaper articles. 

 

Story or Case Study Request: People who have had childhood illnesses as adults, such as measles or mumps.

Requested by: Daily Newspaper.

Story / Case Study Info: Do you know anyone who had chicken pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough as an adult? We are writing a feature about how these illnesses manifest themselves when caught in adult life and would like to do short telephone interviews with those who have suffered from them as adults. All enquiries dealt with in strictest confidence

 

Story or Case Study Request: Fatal Attraction – A man who has been the victim of a “Fatal Attraction” style stalker.

Requested by: Glossy Magazine.

Story / Case Study Info: He must be prepared to be identified and talk about how he met the female stalker, what type of relationship they shared, when and how the stalking began and the aftermath. If he has a wife/partner who went through this with him we’d like to talk to her too.

Story / Case Study Criteria: He must be aged between 20-35 and we’ll need evidence this happened – either by police reports, a conviction, letters, text messages or emails.

 

Story or Case Study Request: A woman who had a bad experience after meeting a man on the internet.

Requested by: Sunday Newspaper.

Story / Case Study Info: a woman who had a bad experience after meeting a man on the internet.
Story / Case Study Criteria: Must be 35 or under.