This document provides tips for finding ideas for profile stories. It suggests talking to strangers and people you know to find interesting stories, eavesdropping on conversations to hear about noteworthy people or events, browsing bulletin boards for event ideas, utilizing social media to see who people are talking about, reading alumni updates for accomplishments, and seeing what other media outlets are already covering to find profile-worthy subjects. The overall goal is to find people doing interesting things that could be the focus of a student-written profile story.