Posts Tagged ‘sunday newspaper story’
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.
Friday, February 26th, 2010
We need these stories or people right now….
Get paid to appear in a magazine or newspaper. Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in a story.
(also, please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider)
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Person or Story Wanted: Adopted Child, or Sperm Donor.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking to interview a woman who’s adopted a child by herself, and we are also looking for a woman who’s used a sperm donor.
Person or Story Wanted: I am looking for women – or couples – who have problems with their mother in laws.
Where the story will appear: Woman’s magazine article.
More info: We are looking to interview 2-3 women – or maybe a couple – who are willing to chat about the effect problematic mother in laws have had on their relationship for a sensitive piece in a top women’s magazine. Maybe their in laws caused such a problem that their relationship even broke down as a consequence. The case study will need to be willing to be pictured (although we can change their name) and also available for a short telephone interview. They will also be paid for their time and the piece will be read back to them before publication.
Person or Story Wanted: People who have lost relatives or loved ones to MRSA.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for case studies of people whose loved ones have died because of MRSA they picked up in an NHS hospital. We need people in particular whose relatives went into hospital for a fairly minor complaint and picked up the infection in there. MRSA mainly affects elderly patients so I\’m looking for people who lost younger relatives in particular.
We also want to hear the case study’s views on what the Government could have done better to prevent MRSA deaths.
Person or Story Criteria: Relatives or loved ones must have caught MRSA in an NHS hospital and died as a result of the infection.
Person or Story Wanted: Women aged under 48 talking about the ‘final straw’ that made them leave their husbands.
Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.
More info: We need pictures of the women with their ex-hubbies.
Person or Story Wanted: Mums who gave birth on a special day whose baby is under 18 months.
Where the story will appear: A pregnancy magazine.
More info: We are looking for mums who gave birth on a meaningful day – such as her wedding anniversary, wedding day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, last day at work (but not Christmas, New Year or a birthday) to feature as a real life birth story in a top pregnancy magazine.
Person or Story Criteria: The baby must be under 18 months and we will need high res images of the mum with her baby as a newborn and the newborn on his/her own.
Person or Story Wanted: We are looking for a man who (like Ashley Cole) is living with his mother in law.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper story.
More info: It would need to be a couple who are willing to speak candidly (ie, about how it affects their sex life) and be photographed on the edition.
Person or Story Wanted: strong, emotional first person lead for july issue.
Where the story will appear: Women’s glossy monthly magazine story.
More info: We need a good emotional, uplifting lead stories (nothing gloomy please – this particular magazine don’t do gloom). Also any nice three women pieces (ideas like ‘what our clothes say about us’; ‘why my fresh start was the best thing that ever happened’.
Person or Story Criteria: 30-55 down-to-earth (ie no high-flyers or career women).
Person or Story Wanted: Teenage mums.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for a young mum who gave birth at 13 or 14. She can be no more than 16 now.
Person or Story Wanted: Male sex addict
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
More info: Real life feature: ‘I am a sex addict’
Person or Story Criteria: Male in his 20s.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who has had an abortion in her 40s, and a woman who contracted an STD in her 40s.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.
More info: The feature is about how these ‘teenage’ type problems can actually occur at any age. Both women would need to be identified and pictured, but we will do a readback to the interviewee. There is a small fee available for the right case study – dependent on the story.
Person or Story Criteria: Must be a woman in her 40s prepared to be identified and pictured.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been driven to taking extreme revenge on their ex boyfriends.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.
More info: We are looking for women who were driven to extreme revenge tactics after finding out a boyfriend was cheating on them or treated them badly in some other way. Perhaps they publicly humiliated him by putting up posters / creating a fake website in his name etc. Perhaps they destroyed his favourite things or ruined his wardrobe. Anything that will make a reader secretly cheer and think, he totally got what he deserved!
Person or Story Criteria: Must be women aged 22-34, willing to be identified / photographed. There is a small fee available.
Person or Story Wanted: A mum who looked after her daughter\’s baby to allow her to finish her education.
Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.
Friday, 26th February 2010
Friday, January 15th, 2010
Would you like to feature in a magazine article and earn cash today? Get paid to appear in any of these magazine & newspaper articles (see requests below), or send us your own story ideas. Sell a story today.
Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to let us know if you are interested.
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Person or Story Wanted: Women who can tell us how Facebook ruined their lives.
Where the article will appear: National Newspaper Story.
Criteria: Must be under 35 with good stories about being stalked, bullied, privacy invaded, or marriage/relationship broke up due to Facebook
Person or Story Wanted: “Love against the odds – they said it would never work”
Where the article will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking for women (aged 21-29) who are in successful relationships that people said would never work. Perhaps they have successfully held down a long distance relationship, fell pregnant very early on in the relationship and made the relationship work, fell in love with someone their family initially disliked or met ‘the one’ on the rebound from another relationship.
We would need to photograph both you and your partner at a photo shoot and can pay a fee, plus your travel expenses.
Person or Story Wanted: Someone who became addicted to antidepressants and who suffered extreme side effects.
Where the article will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine article.
More info: We are looking for a woman who, after being on antidepressants, has suffered extreme side-effects – anything from death to massive strokes or suicide attempts, which can definitely be linked back to the antidepressants.
Criteria: Women aged between 18 and 35
Person or Story Wanted: Husband/sister/children of woman who died of a gynaelogical cancer.
Where the article will appear: Sunday Newspaper.
More info: We are looking for the families of a woman (aged no more than 45) who died of gynaelogical cancer. We want to speak to her husband/fiance/partner and her sister, and photograph them with her children. This is for a feature on the forgotten victims of cancer-the family.
Criteria: All case studies and the deceased to be no older than 45 approx.
Person or Story Wanted: I am looking for a woman, who decided to abort her child when she found out it would be disabled.
Where the article will appear: Women’s Weekly Magazine.
More info: We are looking for someone who took the decision to abort a baby knowing that it would be disabled and therefore would have a bad quality of life. It would good to find two women, one who stands by her decision and one who regrets it.
Criteria: The women would have to be happy to be identified and pictured. Also, they have to be exclusive to us.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who has been attacked by another woman/women, eg mugged, targeted on night out.
Where the article will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We are putting together a report on the rise of female violence and looking for a woman aged 20-39 who has suffered violence at the hands of another woman or women.
This could be a random attack on a night out, walking past a group of girls who start being aggressive, or an attack in a bar or club, but something that was totally unexpected (as well as totally undeserved).
We would want to interview her about what happened, and photograph her.
Criteria: Case study must be female, aged 20-39, live in the UK.
Friday, 15th January 2010
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Gat paid to feature in any of these magazine & newspaper articles, or send us a different story idea.
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Person or Story Wanted: A young woman who’s looking after her siblings.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We’re urgently searching for a young woman who is now caring for her siblings after her parents have died or are otherwise unable to look after them.
Criteria: Must have been granted custody of her siblings and allow them to be named and pictured. Ideally aged 18-25.
Person or Story Wanted: Obesity related case studies.
Where the story will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We are working on a feature about obesity and how the problem is spreading into funerals – bigger coffins / larger burial plots etc. We need to speak to anybody who’s buried a relative that was largely overweight and how the funeral was affected by their size.
Alternatively, I would like to speak to anyone who’s severely overweight and worried about the problems their size could cause to a funeral and the affect this could have on their family. Bit of an odd request I know! But if anyone has any obesity related stories at all, we’d be interested in taking a look at them.
Person or Story Wanted: Teen boy who has Botox injections.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper story.
Person or Story Wanted: Sex and the City lookalikes.
Where the story will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
More info: We are looking for lookalikes of Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha from the show, Sex and the City. It would be great if they had a story but the looks are obviously more important for this feature.
Person or Story Wanted: Valentines Stories.
Where the story will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: Looking for any really romantic proposal stories for a Valentines day feature.
Criteria: Case studies must be between the ages of 18 and 35.
Person or Story Wanted: A mum who’s child took part in the strangling game with friends and hurt themselves.
Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.
More info: There is a new internet craze, which shows teenagers strangling each other in order to give themselves a high. We are looking for a case study of a mum who’s daughter took part in this and really hurt themselves.
Criteria: The mum must be aged between 18 and 35.
Monday, 11th January 2010
