Tyler as a cub reporter interviewing Sen. Sherrod Brown during a visit to Bowling Green. Photo: Tyler Buchanan/Axios
👋 Tyler here. I'm a longtime "The Office" obsessive who spent years working for various Ohio newspapers.
That makes me cautiously excited about the show's new version, which will be set at a small Midwestern newspaper.
The intrigue: If the writing team needs any inspiration, I have loads of material to offer.
🦃 I once coveredour town's Wild Turkey Festival alongside a Danish reporter who had been imprisoned for publishing military secrets.
🧑⚖️ An Ohio Supreme Court candidate walked into the newsroom unannounced one day, and more or less demanded to be interviewed.
🔥 One of my newsrooms shared a wall with a restaurant kitchen. I was alarmed to hear a kitchen fire reported on the police scanner.
"It's just a grease fire, you're good," a firefighter told me as I snapped photos from our doorstep.
🤣 And my personal favorite: A reader complained about a "Blondie" comic strip that coincidentally featured a side character with her exact first and last name.
She seriously believed she inspired the character and described feeling extremely embarrassed by it.
I explained it's a syndicated comic drawn somewhere else.
She insisted: "I know it's me. I have blonde hair too!"
The bottom line: Here's hoping "The Office" doesn't try a series on hyperlocal digital newsletters.
