Marcel Cohen proposes to Zlati Meyer
Newsrooms are often full of cynics and disgruntled reporters. That's just the way they are.
Newsroom festivities are usually reserved for such rare occasions as winning a Pulitzer prize.
But on Tuesday, love was in the air at the Detroit Free Press newsroom downtown on Lafayette Blvd.
Marcel Cohen, boyfriend of Freep reporter Zlati Meyer, drove down from Toronto, and with some help from Freep reporter Jim Schaefer, got into the newsroom and did something kind of wild and crazy.
He proposed in front of about 100 people in the newsroom around 4 p.m. And oh by the way, Meyer said yes.
As Schaefer described it on his Facebook page:
Dude drives from Toronto, delivers 6 dozen purple roses, hires jazz singer Sky Covington and her keyboardist, sings a duet in the newsroom, then goes on bended knee to ask for Zlati Meyer's hand in marriage -- in front of 100 people. #BALLSY.
Schaefer said Cohen contacted him about two weeks ago and started planning it all.
Earlier in the day on Tuesday, Schaefer quietly let some folks in the newsroom know this was going to go down.
"It was very touching," Schaefer said. "There were grown men walking with tissues to their eyes."
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