The best quotes overheard in the newsroom
- #3501
Assignment Editor: “I’m sending you a picture of a truck in a pond.”
Web Producer: “I’m sending you a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.”
- #3500
“The world’s biggest pencil? What’s the point of that?”
- #3499
City Editor calling the senior citizen’s center after hearing a possible fire call on the scanner: “Hey, can you tell me if you guys are on fire over there?”
- #3498
Online conversation between two Reporters in different markets:
Reporter #1: “What are you doing?”
Reporter #2: “Not much. It’s pretty slow. Nobody has been shot in like the last four hours.”
- #3497
Editor: “He did what? To who? Where? And with what now? This is what you’re paid to tell ME!”
- #3496
Photographer: “Now can I go back to the bar?”
Copy Editor: “Only if I get to come with you.”
- #3495
Designer doing a cutout: “I’ve spent more time inside Edie Falco’s crotch than any man ever should.”
- #3494
TV Photographer to Asst. News Director: “I saw the best bumper sticker last night! It said, ‘TV is to News what Bumper Stickers are to Philosophy.”
Asst. News Director: “Ha! That’s so true.”
- #3493
Reporter proofing a sports page with a swimming portrait: “Is this the high-definition nipple picture they were talking about?”
- #3492
Web Editor having trouble writing a headline: “Maybe I should try actually reading the story before writing the headline.”
- #3491
Editor-in-Chief: “Thank you for coming.”
Reporter: “That’s what she said.”
Online Editor: “(Name)!”
Reporter: “Sorry it just slipped out.”
Online Editor: “That’s what she said.”
- #3490
In a memo: “Please don’t use the newsroom copier. It is setting paper on fire. Repairman has been notified.”
- #3489
Reporter #1: “We aren’t allowed to eat at our desks anymore. Apparently we’re going upscale.”
Reporter #2: “Meals or does this include donuts, M&M’s and these really stale crackers?”
- #3488
Cop on scanner: “There’s about 100 Chinese people marching with flags toward city hall. Did we know that?”
- #3487
Assignment Editor: “I’m calling Oklahoma to see if they’re covering the ex-husband who lit his ex-wife on fire.”
Producer: “He was just trying to re-kindle the romance.”
