The best quotes overheard in the newsroom
- #9342
Copy editor, while having to rewrite an intern’s entire story: “Being a reporter is kind of fun!”
- #9341
Ad directors whiteboard on production day at a weekly: “Thinkin’ Positive!”
Graphic designers note at the bottom: “Positively NO LATE ADS”
- #9340
Editor after joke: “You’re going to miss us when we’re laid off.”
- #9339
Reporter: “If beer is unprofessional then I want to be unemployed!”
- #9338
Copy Editor: “I can barely watch the National Geographic Bee because it’s too stressful.”
- #9337
Reporter: “All I want for Christmas is my rabies vaccine.”
Editor: “It’s getting way too late.”
- #9336
Veteran reporter talking about the good old days: “One night I was talking to the news editor and I had just revealed to him that I was sleeping with one of the copy editors, and he drops the bomb on me saying he was sleeping with the sports editor’s mother.”
- #9335
Chief Copy Editor: “What is all this junk on our website?”
Web Editor: “Oh, that’s the stuff they automatically post for us.”
Chief Copy Editor: “What? That’s stupid.”
Web Editor: “Do you just want to go in the back end and look at it?”
- #9334
Sports reporter: “A cop tackled him (the college QB) before arresting him.”
News editor: “Based on what I saw the last two seasons, that couldn’t have been that hard.”
- #9333
Columnist: “All I had to do is say the words ‘anal sex’ out there and like six people turned around.”
- #9332
Managing editor: “We need someone to cover the donation to the YMCA. What are you doing today?”
Staff writer: “I’m just working on a murder, but I can do whatever.”
- #9331
Producer about Anchor: “I can feel brain cells dying every time she asks me a question.”
- #9330
Assignment editor to caller: “Ma’am, I’m going to let you go. I’ve talked to you more than I’ve talked to my mom this week.”
- #9329
Producer to Reporter: “Two things that don’t go together: A mugshot and argyle.”
- #9328
Copy desk editor: “Mornings are a time of zombification.”
- #9327
City editor: “I think the wire is constipated today.”
- #9326
Reporter: “How do I make a printable list of this photo directory?”
Designer: “There’s this thing called Google…”
Reporter: “Hey Mr. smarty pants, why don’t you take your Google and jam it up your Yahoo.”
- #9325
Editor: “If this were the old days I’d offer you a shot of bourbon.”
Reporter: “You have bourbon?”
- #9324
Reporter: “Oh my God, we got an email from Allah!”
News Editor: “Allah is very tech savvy for a God. Does he have a Twitter?”
Reporter: “No, but he has two emails and a PO Box in California.”
- #9323
Designer: “Someone’s auctioning off Ronald Reagan’s blood? Do they think if they drink it, they’ll get superpowers?”
