Dive into the archives.
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GA Reporter: “When I make my cop calls, I completely change my tone of voice depending on the sex of the dispatcher.”
- 293
Reporter, on late breaking story about a man killed at an electrical substation: “Do we have a page that hasn’t been sent with room for the fried guy?” Copy editor: “Well… I’m still working on the obit page.”
- 292
Writer looks at a food/insect photoshop mashup site on the Production Editor’s screen and asks: “How did cookie get on internet?”
- 291
“I heard a rumor there are fake babies in the paper tomorrow.”
- 290
Managing Editor to Editor: “This is why we can’t have nice things.”
- 289
“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the readers. Thank god we’ve almost taken care of that.”
- 288
During A1 budget meeting: “I’m sorry, I just died of boredom.”
- 287
Web producer on feedback to current project: “Stop Microsofting my iPod!”
- 286
“That’s a nice little package there.”
- 285
AME after taking a rambling call about a local TV personality from an elderly reader: “Instead of dirty phone numbers, there should be phone numbers for old people so they can just call and talk to someone.”
- 284
Clerk: “Some guy is on the phone threatening to have our newspaper license pulled.” City Desk Editor: “Oh, I don’t have the heart to tell him we forgot to renew that last year.”
- 283
“It was very traumatizing, and that’s how it should be.” Editor-in-chief talking about punishments for writers
- 282
Columnist and former city editor (in a charming southern accent): “What do you call a Jew church again?”
- 281
“Once I ate food out of the trash can. I was really hungry and it was just sitting there.”
- 280
6pm Producer: “Oh! If you keep that up, one of your scripts is going to magically disappear!” 5pm Producer: “Like that’s never happened before. Why don’t you just rearrange things instead? That would be different.”
- 307
Said to new online producer: “You know how when you work retail everyone’s banging? Here people actually get married to each other!”
- 279
P.R. person to editor: “Does this look like a liability to you?”
- 278
“(Editor), you scare me when you’re loud.” “You probably shouldn’t work in a newsroom if you’re scared of loud people.”
- 277
Editor to reporter: “Let’s move voodoo dolls higher… because you just can’t go wrong with voodoo dolls.”
- 276
“Hands off my Updike!”
