slo’s TUESDAY 10/24 poll - You in the Local News and/or Newspaper

[SM1992]

My wife and I were interviewed about our years of volunteering at PGA Tour events. It appeared in a local paper and a golf magazine. She also had an interview and photo published in our local paper about her "Jeopardy" appearance. Oh and she was on the tv news when we were in a team pro shop and asked to comment about a local sports figure that was in trouble with the law. I guess she's more famous than me!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

I made the local paper in my hometown a few times while growing up for various music honors. My school class also made the NBC evening news out of NYC because Elie Wiesel came to speak. The funniest was in my adult life when my husband and I just happened to be in Vegas for the big opening of the monorail in 2004. We were interviewed by one of the Vegas news stations, but our city newspaper was also there to cover the opening. So, we were living in Houston but traveled to Vegas to be interviewed by The Houston Chronicle.

 

[1420Elexismc]

I've been interviewed a couple of times over the years for the local news and have been in the local newspapers for sports during high school

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Our wedding photo was in the local paper 42 years ago.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Our wedding announcement was in the paper and I’ve also had an online article written about me and my job (my former role at my company).

 

[slo]

I have not "appeared" ever. My name has been in paper YEARS ago in the Bowling Honor roll and I wrote a few times to Letters to the Editor. My daughter had a nice big picture of herself when she was on the swim team in HS. I also sent my kids pictures into the paper with their "first fish" when they were quite young! I do not think my husband has ever been in the paper, LOL!

edited to add: OUR WEDDING PHOTO!!! So yes, I've been in the paper and so has he.

I forgot about this - we also had our wedding photo in the paper and our engagement photo. Do people still do this or is it a thing of the past? We were in engaged in 1993 and married in 1995.

 

[tvguy]

My birth announcement was in the paper 66 years ago.

First time I remember was 1969. The local ABC station decided to stop running Dark Shadows and replaced it with reruns of Lassie. Many of us picketed that TV station and the local newspaper cover it. I was in the photo with the article with my picket sign that said "Lassie Go Home" Ironically, 20 years later I would be working at that TV station!

I wrote a letter to the editor of Popular Science in about 1974 that got published.

Our engagement made the local paper.

My wife's Grandfather lived in a small (2,000 population) town in Illinois and we would go visit every year and it would make the local paper.

On TV, well, while I was behind the scenes for over 42 years, it's hard not to get mentioned on air. And two stations I worked at had the newsroom as either the backdrop of the news set, or the newsroom WAS the new set. Until the pandemic, the back of my head was in the shot of the main anchors every day. I used to get messages from people I knew about how they liked the shirt I was wearing, or my new hair cut. Yup, the back of my head had a fan club. The sports guy still mentions me from time to time in regards to my favorite baseball team, and I retired over two years ago.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

The Philadelphia Daily News used to have a regular feature where young people could write an article, and in I think 1982 when I was in high school I wrote a piece about my grandmother, who had just had laryngeal cancer and had her larynx removed and treatment for that. I wrote about how brave she was and how much we all loved her. A photo of me accompanied the article. My grandmother kept a framed copy of that page in the living room afterwards.

Wow, I haven't thought about that in years. Thanks, @slo.

 

[princesscinderella]

I was in the paper a few times when I was a kid for various school awards or activities. I was in two commercials for my University, one that showed me in my dorm room and one that had me speaking about the university.

 

[Lord Manhammer]

My local regional tv station did a segment on social media and interviewed me as a subject matter expert. That was fun.

 

[Micca]

Local/National/Local paper--it was a long time ago, light-hearted stuff(no controversy or anything.) You never know how un-reliable your local paper is until they do a story about you. Makes you wonder how they're doing with the really important stuff.

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Eons ago, there was a short article about my dad and I in a now long-gone family section of a newspaper.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I’ve been on the local news in the capacity of seeing myself in the background as the camera as the camera panned.

My name has been in some small town newspaper way back in the day when they published the honor roll.

 

[Uncle Coaster]

A couple of decades ago (sigh) I worked as an energy analyst for an alternative investment firm. I used to do interviews semi regularly for websites like marketwatch.com back when it was part of CBS and others. Was on my way to do an interview from the local tv station for a CNN broadcast but was called back because the local studio was booked.

My biggest claim to fame was one year on my birthday 60 Minutes did a story on OPEC and then at the end said “for one analyst’s thoughts on OPEC and forecast for oil futures listen to the audio interview online at …”.

I was the analyst, OPEC did exactly what I said they would at their next meeting, and futures prices came within a few pennies of my forecast.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been a part of that world for a long time.

 

[scbruno]

Was in the high school sports section numerous times many years ago...

 

[JLTraveling]

When I was 7, the local public schools developed an individualized program for me, in which I attended high school classes in the mornings and elementary school classes in the afternoon. A local reporter was covering the meeting where all that was arranged, with my parents' permission, because she wanted to do a story on how the local schools were coping with kids who were outside the norm.

Long story short, at the end of the meeting, she asked permission to release the story to the Associated Press. My parents agreed, thinking it might become back page filler somewhere.

The phone was ringing off the hook by the time we got home. I appeared on Donahue, the Today Show, several TV and radio news shows across the country, and on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. It led to some cool stuff, like an award from the American Academy of Achievement, which pairs high-achieving kids with celebrities at the top of their fields for a weekend. Anyway, I was the story of the week for a couple of months, and then the press moved on. Interesting experience!