he tradition started some time around April 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any time a Scout in the Greater Tampa Bay Area Council made headlines, Brandon Kathman took the news clipping and posted it on the wall of his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a way for Kathman, a district executive with a degree in journalism, and the volunteers on the council marketing committee to celebrate each of these positive stories about local Scouting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the months that followed, the number of clippings grew. And grew. At last count, there are nearly 90 examples of Scouts making headlines in the Tampa area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis ritual became the chaotic, overlapping wallpaper that can be seen today,\u201d Kathman says. \u201cWe ran out of surface area first. Then we finally ran out of tacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don\u2019t need to be a council professional with a degree in journalism to get your Scouts featured in the local newspaper, TV station or digital media outlet. You just need the right pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Get more details at this article<\/a> on Bryan’s Blog of Scouting Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" he tradition started some time around April 2020. Any time a Scout in the Greater Tampa Bay Area Council made headlines, Brandon Kathman took the news clipping and posted it on the wall of his office. It was a way … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talakto.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}