Your small paper could be a reality star!

[BDC99]

Anyone seen typefitter?

 

[PeterGibbons]

My favorite part of the ad:
"Is your team a real version of "The Office" meets "Parks and Recreation?"

I'd think if they were to come to our shop a number of the sports and photo staff would be making daily trips to HR, not to mention all the civil rights groups that would be pissed off/offended on a daily basis... That is if they could get anything to tape that they didn't have to bleep out every third word.

 

[GidalKaiser]

If they don't choose Roswell, I ain't watching.

If the product is anything at all like what it was when I worked there, that's going to be a very depressing, droll program. But they will have someone nicknamed "Pot Pie," so there's that. And of course the town stuck in its own delusions over the alien spiel.

"Pot Piener" and "Boooooooosh!" with references to "Spanky"

The title of the should probably be "Roswell is BOOMING!"

I've got great stories about "Booooooooosh," among others. And I was there just 13 months.

 

[Songbird]

If they don't choose Roswell, I ain't watching.

If the product is anything at all like what it was when I worked there, that's going to be a very depressing, droll program. But they will have someone nicknamed "Pot Pie," so there's that. And of course the town stuck in its own delusions over the alien spiel.

"Pot Piener" and "Boooooooosh!" with references to "Spanky"

The title of the should probably be "Roswell is BOOMING!"

I've got great stories about "Booooooooosh," among others. And I was there just 13 months.

September 2001 to June 2003 was a wonderful time to be in that newsroom, with the perfect kind of staff to be in this kind of show. Perfect storm brought a unique set of newsies together: pot pie devastators and drug addicts and drunks galore; uptight Baptist ministers with colonoscopy bags; divorced sports editors who masturbated to porn on company computers and splotched onto company chairs and on other days went berserk and threw said chairs into company walls, prompting a trip to Denny's for a talking-to over Super Birds; an old Kansas City Kings announcer and barbecue-loving Hunter Thompson wannabe who peacocked about in cowboy boots and a gallon hat and whose political stories hung heavier with opinion than fact (he has since died); manic-depressive editors whose personal prose and poetry makes him seem like the unlikely love child of Kerouac and Frost; middle-aged editors who openly touched the face of a sportswriter because "I just wanted to feel your whiskers"; a Caddyshack-loving Scony grad (at one point there were 4 Wisconsinites in the newsroom, giving off a weird cheesehead-alien vibe); the whip-smart yet bizarro cop reporter from Corpus Christie with a Napoleon complex; a goth-minded Roswell native and NMMI grad who'd walk into the newsroom with no shirt on a hot Saturday afternoon, hung over, yet he always pulled it together to design flashy front pages; a funky but funny and cool press crew with the Vietnamese dude who always told everyone about his monthly appetite for "red wing" cuisine; a Kansas State-loving "Animal" who was naked without hand sanitizer; the granddaughter of a famous author; a USC grad; a girl from Norway; and many other unique personalities including the one and only Geno Lawrenzi.

Good times. Good, good times.

 

[HanSenSE]

If not Roswell, then Pittsfield!

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/3305865/

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

The Hungry Horse News is a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 4,200. Published every Wednesday, the Hungry Horse News covers the community of Columbia Falls, Glacier National Park and the Flathead Valley.

The name dates back to 1900 when two freight horses, Tex and Jerry, were lost in the undeveloped South Fork of the Flathead River drainage. When found a month later in belly-deep snow, they were skin and bones — and very, very hungry. Today, Hungry Horse is the name of a creek, lake, mountain, town and hydroelectric darn.

http://www.flatheadnewsgroup.com/hungryhorsenews/

Their editor is receptive to the idea:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/newspapers-vie-for-reality-show/?ref=todayspaper