Posts Tagged ‘national newspaper’
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
URGENT STORY REQUESTS – GET PAID TO BE IN THE PRESS
The following people are urgently needed for magazine and newspaper articles. You will be paid to appear in a magazine or newspaper story. See the list below and visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you can help us with any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk ).
Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story today.
What better way to earn extra cash for Christmas!
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Person or Story Wanted: A gritty real life story occurring at a party. We’re looking for a real life story with a gritty edge set in a party. It could be any kind of party but with a dramatic event attached to it eg. a punch up, stabbing, shocking announcement etc.
Wanted by: National women’s magazine.
Person or Story Wanted: Need a couple where boyfriend thinks his girlfriend dresses way too s£xily and would like to make over his missus for just one day. The pair would need to be named and photographed for a light-hearted feature in a newspaper. They would also need to be able to come to London for a shoot.
Wanted by: Daily National Newspaper.
Person or Story Wanted: Have you got friendly with someone at work to get your way to the top? If so, we’d like to hear from you. Maybe getting close to a colleague, or even your boss has landed you your dream job? Or got you to places you never would have got to otherwise.
Wanted by: Glossy Weekly Magazine.
Person or Story Wanted: Jealousy drove me mad! We have a girl who hid her boyfriend’s passport to stop him going on a stag do and another who hired a private detective to stalk him, so we need something else to complete our article.
Wanted by: Glossy Weekly Magazine.
Person or Story Wanted: We are looking for couples who have funny disputes or funny issues they can’t stop arguing about for a new TV show. In addition we are looking for people who have large collections which are taking over their house; people who have decorated their homes in a very unusual manner; people who are obsessed with their animals; people who let their animals run all over the house; or anyone with a funny obsession of any kind.
Wanted by: TV company.
Person or Story Wanted: Teenagers or very young people getting married for a documentary about teens who tie the knot.
Wanted by: UK Television channel.
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for parents who manage their kids career in either the entertainment business or sport. We are casting for a BBC3 series with the working title Managed by My Mum.
Wanted by: TV Production company.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman aged between 20-45 who will be willing to talk openly and frankly about her s£x life. We are looking for a woman who has just come out of a long-term relationship (within the last two months) and is willing to keep a diary for a week about their s£x life. She will need to be really open and frank about her sex patterns/thoughts/actions across the week. She can be anonymous if necessary.
Wanted by: Glossy Magazine.
Person or Story Wanted: We are looking for a strong human interest story that could make a national newspaper spread this weekend.
Wanted by: Leading Sunday Newspaper.
Person or Story Wanted: A young family living on benefits that would write a weekly diary about how they cope financially.
Wanted by: Daily National Newspaper.
Person or Story Wanted: Mothers of young adults who are about to remarry inappropriately – perhaps a partner who is younger/older/diff sex/nationality.
Wanted by: Sunday Newspaper Magazine Supplement.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who had to drastically cut short their maternity leave because of financial worries. Report piece on the rise in numbers of new mums who have been forced to take just weeks instead of months off with their baby because of the current economic crisis.
Wanted by: Sunday Newspaper Magazine Supplement.
Person or Story Wanted: Person 18-40 who has had a negative experience taking part in drug trials.
Wanted by: Glossy Weekly Magazine.
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Please get in touch if you think you could help with one of these magazine or newspaper stories. We will pay you for your participation, so visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk today and fill out our online form. If you would like to sell a story that isn’t on the above list, just let us know; we are looking for all kinds of stories.
Tuesday, 9th November 2010
Friday, September 17th, 2010
URGENT STORY REQUESTS – EARN CASH NOW
Stories are urgently needed. You will be paid to appear in a magazine or newspaper story.
Just visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk ).
Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story today.
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Story or Person Wanted: Someone who broke free of the benefits trap.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: National Newspaper Story.
Info: We are urgently looking for someone who grew up in a family on benefits but has managed to break free of the benefits trap and really make something of their life. Perhaps growing up in that environment actually made them determined not to follow the same route themselves. This is a positive piece to show that even without hard working role models around you as a child you can still break away from all that and make a better life for yourself.
Criteria: Male or female aged 18 or over.
Story or Person Wanted: Man with a visible health condition – who is looking for a cure.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: BBC TV programme.
Info: We are urgently looking for a man with a visible health condition who would like treatment from a leading doctor. He might have seen a few doctors already and has been unable to get to the bottom of his problem. It is for a new BBC programme.
Criteria: Male, with visible health condition.
Story or Person Wanted: Christmas stories please.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Woman’s Magazine Story.
Info: We are ideally looking for strong Christmas stories that touch upon how the recession has impacted families and the way they’ve had to downsize festivities. Anything particularly heartbreaking – not medical – or uplifting very much welcome.
Criteria: Mostly after mums aged 30-50 but am open to hearing ideas!
Story or Person Wanted: Halloween and Bonfire stories.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for a spooky story to use for Halloween and a Bonfire/Guy Fawkes one.
Criteria: Ideally female, but they can be talking about their partner or children.
Story or Person Wanted: a woman who has been told a shocking secret by a family member.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
Info: The secret could be that her mother had an eating disorder when she was younger; a parent had been in prison; a parent had had an affair; a sibling/half sibling had been born and adopted; had a family member been married before; was somebody close illiterate, family member had an addiction etc etc.
Criteria: women need to be between 30-55.
Story or Person Wanted: The family of a victim whose offender is due for release or has been released.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s magazine story.
Info: We’re doing a feature on sentencing and are looking for the family of a victim who are unhappy with the jail sentence the offender got, because they are due for release (to serve the rest of their time on license) or have been released. The person who speaks needs to be female and the victim can be male or female. It doesn’t matter when the crime happened, but the offender needs to have been charged and was released within the last year or is due to be released in the next few months. They will need to be pictured and a payment will be made.
Criteria: The family member needs to be female (mum, sister or partner) and can be any age from 20 to 55. The victim can be male or female and any age.
Story or Person Wanted: A woman/couple who bought sperm over the internet.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: National Daily Newspaper Story.
Info: We are trying to find someone who bought sperm over the internet to talk about what happened, what their experience was etc. This includes women who bought sperm then changed their mind about using it. We would also be interested to speak to a man who sold sperm over the internet, or who was a sperm donor, or went down the route then changed his mind.
Criteria: None.
Story or Person Wanted: Victims of Botox cowboys.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
Info: A new study says that one in 20 women who have botox in the UK suffer complications thanks to Botox cowboys. We are looking for a case study who has had a horrific experience as a result of using a dodgy Botox doctor.
Criteria: Need to be female and have strong before and after photos.
Story or Person Wanted: Party changed my life.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
Info: We are looking for case studies for a piece on ‘The party that changed my life’. Examples are:
I met my husband after being single for eight years;
I met my future business partner;
I changed career – and became a party planner/amazing DJ or somesuch;
I met my long lost brother;
I had an accident and was paralysed;
I hit rock bottom – and rose to the surface.
Criteria: Women aged 18-35.
Story or Person Wanted: A lapdancer who went to university and has a degree.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for a girl who works as a lap dancer in a club but also has a degree.
Criteria: Female – needs to have proof of degree and be happy to do a shoot.
Story or Person Wanted: Girl to tell us how she tamed her man, or how she couldn’t!
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Women’s weekly – glossy magazine story.
Info: We’re looking for someone who’s tamed her boyfriend to become a one-woman man. And someone else to tell us how she tried to do that, and failed. Criteria: 20-30 years old, female.
Story or Person Wanted: A severely overweight woman who claims she is too fat too work.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
Info: We’re looking for someone willing to admit that they are too fat to work and unwilling to seek employment for an article debating whether being overweight does limit your job opportunities or is just an excuse for laziness.
We’d also like to find an overweight woman earnestly seeking work who has been turned down for jobs because of her size, and an overweight woman who is gainfully employed and thinks being big should not be an excuse for unemployment.
Criteria: Participants should be aged 18-45, and female.
Story or Person Wanted: A crime story about a woman aged mid 30s to mid 50s.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Weekly Women’s Magazine.
Info: We are looking for crime stories – it could be something along the lines of a woman who turned her life around after her husband tried to kill her, or it could be a heartbreaking murder story. Or it could be a woman’s desperate hunt to find her loved-one’s killer.
Criteria: The woman needs to be mid 30s to 40s, and identified.
Story or Person Wanted: Teen who has suffered a large number of STDs.
Where the Story or Article will Appear: Glossy magazine.
Info: The girl (or maybe boy) would need to be willing to speak openly and be identified and pictured. They will be paid for their participation.
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Please get in touch if you think you could help with one of these magazine or newspaper stories. We will pay you for your participation, so visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk today and fill out our online form.
If you would like to sell a story that isn’t on the above list, just let us know, we are looking for all kinds of stories.
Friday, 17th September 2010
Monday, April 26th, 2010
We urgently need these stories right now…. (see story requests below).
Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).
You can also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.
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Person or Story Wanted: Britain’s Got Talent Stories.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper.
More info: We are looking for any information about this year’s Britain’s Got Talent contestants. We will pay for any scrap of information, no matter how small. Get in touch now.
Person or Story Wanted: Strong real lives for the women’s pages.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Real-Life Stories.
More info: We are looking for $exy, edgy, topical real life stories for the Women’s pages to put out to the national editors this week. Uplifting is better but nothing too soft.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman whose addiction to looking like a celebrity ruined her life.
Where the story/article will appear: Magazine True Story Section.
More info: We are looking for young women who have spent a lot of time and money trying to look like their favourite celebrity, eg by having a lot of cosmetic surgery such as having a boob job to look like Katie Price, lip injections to look like Angelina, or anything else quite extreme. We need someone whose obsession has ruined their life in some way; eg got them heavily in to debt because they spent so much on surgery, it ended their relationship because their boyfriend was jealous of the attention she got from men, she stopped getting work as a professional lookalike because the star she copied was hated, etc.
Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38. Willing to be photographed.
Person or Story Wanted: IVF mix up Stories.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for any IVF mix up stories.
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant.
Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.
More info: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant. She may have been single when she was expecting through to a split, bereavement or having got used AI or similar because she didn’t want to wait for Mr Right to have children. Will want her partner/husband to comment too on how the experience was for him, meeting her under the circumstances.
Person/Story criteria: Ideally they are still together and may even have had children together since.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman (aged 25-55) whose marriage ended after she became more successful then her husband.
Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.
More info: For example, he had an affair to boost his ego after she got a promotion/payrise at work or her career success made him insecure and was the reason their relationship ended. Please note that we can credit the subject’s business at the end of the piece.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been severely affected by post natal depression
Where the story/article will appear: Newspaper story.
More info: Case studies to be approx 18-35 years old.
Person or Story Wanted: Victims of crime who are outraged by the sentencing their attacker received.
Where the story/article will appear: Woman’s Weekly – Real Life Story Section.
More info: We are working on a feature about people who’ve suffered a terrible crime and been appalled by their attackers’ jail sentence.
Person/Story criteria: Ideally family members. Would need to be female and aged 18-40, but this can be adapted depending on how strong the story is.
Person or Story Wanted: Woman who waited until her children were in their late teens before she divorced her husband.
Where the story/article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We’re looking for a woman to talk about having waited until her children were in their late teens before divorcing her husband, in the belief that it would be less damaging to them.
Person or Story Wanted: Young women who have been humiliated on Facebook, or the internet, or in other ways, by an ex.
Where the story/article will appear: Magazine Article.
More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their reputations ruined by a malicious ex. We would want to interview her/him about how this affected her/him, and they would need to be identified.
Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38, willing to be ID’d.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have had their lives ruined by a malicious ex.
Where the story/article will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story / Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their lives – and reputations – ruined at the hands of a malicious ex.
We would want to interview her about how this affected her, and she would need to be identified.
Person/Story criteria: Female, UK based, aged between 18-38.
Person or Story Wanted: Heartwarming and uplifting features with good pictures.
Where the story/article will appear: Weekend newspaper magazine article.
More info: We are on the hunt for heartwarming, uplifting stories. If you would like more details and think you may be able to help, get in touch. Thanks.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Here are the latest story requests from national press. You can get paid to feature in any of these magazine and newspaper articles. Visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to let us know if you fit the profile, or tell us about a different story.
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We are looking for this story: Woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a man.
Media outlet: National Newspaper
More info: We are looking for a woman who finds out her husband is having an affair with a man. If she found out on her wedding night/day would be ideal. But just before the wedding or just after would be fine too.
Special story criteria: Woman aged 18-35 (can be flexible on age).
We are looking for this story: A woman aged 18-35 who was raped at a Christmas or New Year party.
Media outlet: Daily Newspaper.
More info: The case study will need to be named, interviewed by phone and photographed. It doesn’t matter if they have appeared in another publication or if it happened a few years ago, although anything exclusive and more recent would be preferable.
Wednesday, 2nd December 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.
Monday, 16th November 2009
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Today’s magazine and newspaper story requests. Earn Cash Today!
(visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk and send us your details if you would like to sell a story).
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Story / Case Study Wanted: New Year stories!
Media outlet: Women’s Magazine
More Info: We’ve just been given extra pages to fill for the New Year issue of a women’s magazine, which is great – but we don’t have any New Year related stories left. Please let us know if you want to sell a story with a new year angle.
Story / Case Study Wanted: We’re after a woman aged 18-40 who’s had botched breast surgery.
Media outlet: National Newspaper.
More info: Strong pics of the damage are a must.
Thursday, 12th November 2009
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.
Wednesday, 28th October 2009
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
We are looking for the following story right now. If you or someone you know fits this profile, get in touch and Sell Your Story today. www.FamousFeatures.co.uk
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Case Study Wanted: Women who became ill and were left by their husbands/partners.
Media Outlet: National Newspaper – Magazine Supplement.
More info: Following a recent report on the numbers of relationships that break down because of serious illness, we are interested in speaking with women whose husbands/partners left them after they (the women) became ill. Perhaps the illness put too much strain on the relationship, perhaps he did not wish to assume the role of carer, whatever the reason we are interested in hearing from them .We appreciate this is a very sensitive subject and it would be treated as such. We are also able to offer a generous fee to suitable case studies. Please contact FamousFeatures for more details.
Special criteria? : Female. Aged 20-45 approx
Case Study Wanted: Single women who have given up on finding Mr Right and used sperm donation to become mothers.
Media Outlet: National Newspaper – Magazine Supplement.
More info: Women must be prepared to be identified and photographed.
Wednesday, 21st October 2009
