extra, extra

status check - embarrassingly delighted
background ambiance - office

i may not have yet traveled around the country as much as i would like, but at least one of my stories has - kind of.

beth mentioned yesterday that she came across an ap-processed version of my movie theater wedding story in a different area paper. while having things from my paper put on the ap is pretty common practice, it was the first time i was made aware of the fact that something i'd reported on went up on the wire.

so i decided to dig around, see if it was anywhere else. and i was ridiculously pleased by the results.

the ap version of the wedding story popped up on news websites in (in no particular order): north carolina, ohio, florida, texas, new mexico, arizona, nebraska, hawaii, nevada, indiana, oklahoma, colorado, georgia, washington (state), kentucky, alabama, missouri, illinois, louisiana, minnesota, new york, and, to my utmost delight, california.

and fox news, but i'm not overly proud of that one.

i should note, however, that the condensed version ala ap features a lede i'd briefly thought about using. but i wound up passing on it so as to not seem overly cliched. and there are some other painful cliches that were added so as to condense the piece into newsbyte size.

nevertheless, i thought it was rather nifty.

here's a link to one of the ap reports - found on a san diego news site. at least part of me has reached that city!

***edit: please note the more complete version of the story (albeit still not entire), found in the boston globe. i'm such a dork sometimes.***