Posts Tagged ‘national press’
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Below you will find today’s story requests from the national press.
Visit www.famousfeatures.co.uk to sell a story, or get paid to be a case study in one of the requests below.
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Story Wanted: A funny baby story.
Media outlet: Women’s Glossy Magazine.
More info: We are looking for a funny baby story – it can be along any line, just anything that will make our readers laugh!
Special criteria: It must be told by a mum between 18 and 35.
Story / Person Wanted: I\’m looking for a case study about little kids who do grown up jobs
Media outlet: Women’s glossy magazine
More info: We are working on a feature about children who have grown up jobs. They could be olympic swimmers, mini-ice dancers, little DJs, budding entrepreneurs. Anything along those lines would be great!
Story / person criteria: Story must come from mum (ideally aged 18-35)
Story / Person Wanted: We are looking for girls who have a saucy job and were caught out by their man
Media outlet: Women’s glossy magazine
More info: I\’m working on a feature about girls with secret sexy jobs who\’ve been caught out by their man.
You could be a stripper, a raunchy glamour model or even a flirty chat line worker. But your man must have uncovered your naughty job.
Applicants MUST be married and able to provide a marriage certificate and wedding collect.
Story / person criteria: Age range is 18-35.
Story / Person Wanted: A British air hostess, or former air hostess, who can describe a typical “day in the life”
Media outlet: Broadsheet Newspaper.
More info: We want to describe the minutiae of a day in the life of an air hostess, the highs and lows and why it is such a stressful job. It is for tomorrow’s paper, so we need to hear from them asap. Thanks.
Story / Person Wanted: I am looking for a transsexual ( who went from a man to a woman)
Media outlet: Glossy women’s magazine
More info: We are looking for a transsexual who felt they were trapped in the wrong body from a very young age. They will have gone from being a man to a woman.
Story / person criteria: They need to be aged between 18 and 35
Wednesday, 16th December 2009
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
The latest story requests from national press. Get paid to feature in 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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Story / Person Wanted: An older woman – in her 40s – who is dating a guy in his late teens early 20s. Get paid to feature in this article.
Story / Person Wanted: We’re looking for women who believe in angels and have a strong story as to why they believe. Need to be pictured and identified. Women 18-40ish. Get paid to feature in this article.
Story / Person Wanted: A woman whose child/children have been snatched by her husband and taken abroad. Get paid to feature in this article.
Story / Person Wanted: Looking for a teen or early 20something who has tried the party drug ‘miaow miaow’ – mephedrone. It’s an article about mephedrone and why its use is on the rise amongst young people.
Story / Person Wanted: Need someone who started using cocaine when they were 15 or 16. We’d like to know when they got started, how, how much they spent on coke, how a 15/16-year-old can afford it, if the price has come down for young users, how much they spent on average a week on their habit? We’d also like to know if they know what they’ve really been taking, if they know that the quality of the gear has deteriorated? Can they also give us an idea of how widespread it is among school children or young teens. Figures suggest it’s on the increase.
Tuesday, 1st December 2009
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Today’s latest story request from the national press. Sell a story to a magazine or newspaper. Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to submit your details.
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Story or Case Study Wanted: Case studies of Brits either living in Dubai or have moved back from there.
Media Outlet: National Daily Newspaper.
More info: I\’m looking for two case studies for tomorrow\’s paper:
1) a Brit who has moved to Dubai and is struggling to find work, or has lost money on their property in the credit crunch.
2) a Brit who moved to Dubai and has moved back because of the credit crunch.
We would need to speak to them today and get a pic. We can pay them a fee for this.
Each case study will be about 200 words each.
Special criteria: Can also be couples or a family.
Thursday, 26th November 2009
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Hello everyone!
In addition to our daily story updates where we will let you know what kind of stories Magazines and Newspapers are looking for right now, we also want to give you a little insight into the world of Famous Features and real-life journalism. We’ll be posting regular blogs to keep you up to date with what is going on in the office, the media, and the world of real-life stories (visit our home page to find out more about selling your story – click here)
The Famous Features Office
So, you could say it’s a rather female-orientated environment here at Famous Features, where we work hard to sell your stories to top magazine and newspapers, including That’s Life!, Take A Break, Closer, and many more cornerstones of the national press.
We’ve turned the old adage of the world of journalism being one big ‘boy’s club’ completely on its head.
Not here it ain’t. Girls only (well nearly!).
You’d be hard pressed to find a more pink, fluffy and feminine office than ours. We’d like to give you an insight into where we write up your inspirational stories.
It’s a tightly run ship, but the office is filled with pink wherever we can. Pink notebooks, pink highlighters, a large pink ‘Famous Features’ sign on the window (which the boring old fuddy duddies in the office next door deemed as tacky – jealousy is a terrible thing) and even a pink lamp. Oh, and did I mention the goldfish? Sadly not pink ones, but we’re working on it.
We work very hard, because selling your stories to the magazines is important to us. So consequently, we spend a lot of time in the office. For this reason, we’ve made it as pink, comforting and female friendly as possible. There’s always handcream in the drawer. There’s always chocolate in the fridge.
We think it’s only fair that we big up the fairer sex quite a bit. After all, it’s your stories of strength, courage and inspiration that make Famous Features the number one press agency for selling your story that it is.
We often look back on stories we’ve sold to magazines and newspapers (such as the Daily Mirror, the People and The Sun) and wonder how the people in that story are getting on. It’s hard not to get personally involved when you’re talking to such incredible people all day.
Take Diane Vinall, for example. We sold her story to That’s Life a couple of months ago. She was absolutely devastated, as any loving mother would be, when her son Stephen was found in East Brighton park last year. He was just 32 years old. Stephen had been a heroin addict for years, and the inquest ruled an overdose as the cause of his death. But Diane isn’t happy with this verdict – she believes he was murdered.
Her story is a touching message of undying love and devotion to her son – she will never give up fighting to find out what really happened the day he died.
Or Jeanette Salmons (nee Sambucci), who remarried her first hubby Malcolm last month 39 years to the day after they married the first time. They were 16 and 18 the first time round, and not quite ready for marriage. They went their separate ways and married new partners – but realised they belonged together after bumping into each other at a family gathering years later. We were so inspired by this story of true love – theirs really is ‘in sickness and in health.’ It appeared in the ‘Your Life’ section of the Daily Mirror on Friday November 20, and we thoroughly enjoyed working with them.
We sold Sylvia Davies’s story to Chat, after she was attacked on Boxing Day 2007 by her abusive ex-partner. She’s since rebuilt her marriage and kicked her alcoholism. She gave birth to her gorgeous baby girl, Emily Rose, a year ago, and we couldn’t be happier for her.
All these incredible women (and there are many more, believe us), just prove that us girls really are the best. Long live the sisterhood, and keep sending us your inspiring stories, ladies!
Alex – Famous Features Journalist
(Don’t worry, we do sell male orientated stories as well, and we have boys in the office – but they have to put up with the pink).
Monday, 23rd November 2009
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Today’s Story Requests from the National Press. Sell a story to a Magazine or Newspaper and Earn Cash Today.
Visit: www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to submit your details.
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Story / Case Study Wanted: Amazing and Inspiring women of 2009
Media outlet: Sunday Newspaper Magazine.
Story / Case Study Description:: We are currently writing a piece about the most inspiring women of 2009 who have achieved incredible things this year. Specifically we’re looking for women that have perhaps campaigned to change a law after a personal tragedy, set up an amazing life-changing charity or something similar. All case studies will be paid.
Story Criteria: Needs to be women aged 18-40 who haven’t really appeared anywhere else, aren’t doing any similar features and would be available to do a shoot either this Friday or the following Monday.
Story / Case Study Wanted: Fun, quirky, unusual stories with a strong new year line in them.
Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.
Story / Case Study Description:: We are looking for any strong short features with a good new year line. They can be about anything apart from romance. Let us know your story ideas and earn cash today.
Story Criteria: Women aged 18 to 35.
Story / Case Study Wanted: Women aged 19-35 for a feature titled: “My Christmas wish came true!”
Media outlet: Glossy Magazine.
Story / Case Study Description:: We’re researching an upbeat, positive, four-case-studies-in-one report for a Glossy Magazine Christmas issue. We’re looking for four women, age 19-35, whose circumstances have changed hugely for the better during 2009.
So, maybe they wished for:
- LOVE. Perhaps they were single at Christmas 2008, and made a resolution to go on a real mission to find love this year, going on loads of dates/setting up their own dating agency/writing a dating book etc – and are now with the man of their dreams.
- MONEY. Perhaps they were in a dead-end, badly-paid job in 2008, but this year they set up an amazing new business/found an amazing new job and are going to end this year making a huge profit/enjoying their new salary/perks.
- FAMILY. Perhaps they always knew they were adopted/had a sibling, and in 2009 they were finally reunited with their birth mum/long-lost sister, etc.
- A BABY. Perhaps they had been trying for kids for years, and this year they finally became a mum in an interesting way, eg: adopting a baby from China; using a sperm donor; etc.
- WEIGHT LOSS. Perhaps a year ago they were overweight and unhappy, but this year, for an interesting reason, they finally shed several stone and now have the body of their dreams.
We will pay each case study for their time and our deadline is the end of this week.
Story Criteria: Case studies should be 19-35 years old, willing to be shot and to provide collect photos if required.
Monday, 23rd November 2009
