Dive into the archives.
- #4185
Reporter: “Do I have to explain who Marie Curie is?” Editor: “The porn star?” Second reporter: “That’s Mary Carey.”
- #4184
Social media editor: “I’m too busy. I can’t use my brain.”
- #4183
Journo to colleague: “Do you have a facebook profile?” Colleague: “Yes, but only to find dead people.”
- #4182
While discussing the hed on a story about student dress codes: Nation editor: “Put ‘skank’ in the headline.” City/state editor: “‘Ho’ is shorter.”
- #4181
Local desk editor about Post-It notes: “I hate everything sticky.”
- #4180
Assistant managing editor during afternoon budget meeting: “The only reason I got into journalism is because the art class was canceled.”
- #4179
City editor, on the phone with his wife: “Yeah, I’m about to head home. (pause) You don’t sound very happy about that.”
- #4178
Reporter looking for notebooks: “Where are the goddamn notebooks?” Other reporter: “You have to write on your hand now.”
- #4177
Print editor talking about suspect who was arrested in a meth lab bust: “How can you get hypothermia from laying in poo? I guess I don’t know. I’ve never intentionally laid in poo.”
- #4176
Female reporter, helping another reporter set up his blog: “So how wide is your widget?”
- #4175
“Was that thunder?” “No, that’s the sound of our circulation dropping.”
- #4174
One editor to another, referring to a Goldman Sachs story: “I can’t believe we’re putting ‘shitty’ in the paper when we can barely say poop or fart or darn any other time.”
- #4173
In response to an arrest on the scanner: “They’re arresting another Hispanic! That’s all they’ve been doing today! Are they trying to be Arizona?”
- #4172
News editor to news designer: “Can I see what the jump looks like so I know whether I have to cut feet or inches?”
- #4171
Copy editor: “Spell checker wants to change ‘Trisha Yearwood’ to ‘Trashy Earwig.’” Slot: “Maybe it’s smarter than we thought.”
- #4170
News editor 1: “Just written 1,000 words about beer. Took longer than it did to drink them.” News editor 2: “The trick is not to be sober when you write.”
- #4169
Day Editor to Night Editor: “There is just too many dead people and not enough people to chase them.”
- #4168
Sports editor to a page designer: “You’re the newsroom equivalent to a fluffer.”
- #4167
Police beat reporter: “I got excited when I heard ‘butcher knife.’”
- #4166
Reporter: “I’m at that shady motel on the east side. Anybody need any meth, child porn while I’m here?”
