Dive into the archives.
- 2056
Reporter: “You can tell this cake was brought to the newsroom by another department. There are plates and forks with it.”
Editor: “There are forks and plates? Man. I just ate a piece of cake with my hands.”
- 2055
Photographer to Producer: “Our computers are so slow I could drive to Google and get the information faster.”
- 2054
Reporter to Copy Editor: “I’d take the ‘journalism’ out of it and just start looking at jobs.com.”
- 2053
Sports editor to assistant sports editors: “I’m just trying to make the section better by letting you do all the work.”
- 2052
Co-worker to spouse over the phone: “When am I going to be able to come home? Is never a time?”
- 2051
Producer on the phone with a viewer: “I’m glad you think prostitution is a career choice, but it’s still a crime.”
- 2050
Reporter to Editor walking around the newsroom: “You keep moving.”
Editor: “Yes. I’m trying to avoid you.”
- 2049
“I’m going to hell?… Fine, I have work experience there.”
- 2048
Copy Chief: “Maybe that’s why I like journalism, because I’m so perverted.”
- 2047
Designer: “@FakeAPStylebook has more Twitter followers than @APStylebook.”
Editor: “Yeah, it shows everyday in our copy.”
- 2046
Guest on newsroom tour: “How many people work here?”
Editor: “About half of them.”
- 2045
Editor to Reporter about the fines for disorderly conduct: “If I’m drunk, publicly urinating, smoking a joint… what happens?”
- 2044
Page one designer to reporter: “I don’t have out-of-the-office expenses. Only in-the-office headaches.”
- 2043
Copy editor proofing local and nation/world pages: “Some of these folios should read “Who cares?’ ”
- 2042
Editor-at-Large: “If you’re not hallucinating from sleep deprivation, you’re not a journalist.”
- 2041
Assignment Editor pondering scanner lingo: “Why do they say party stabbed in chest? Parties are supposed to be fun.”
- 2040
Designer on the newsroom: “I wonder if anybody has ever died in here?”
- 2039
Copy editor: ‘One of these days, we’re all going to snap. They won’t say we’re going postal. They’ll say we’re going journalist.”
- 2038
Metro editor: “I don’t know how people expect me to get any work done when I’m trying to figure out this new Facebook format.”
- 2037
“I pull words out of somewhere, but it’s not the air.”
