Dive into the archives.
- #5486
Editorial desk: “Did anyone here call Seaside Heights?” Reporter: “I did — wait, is it about the sharks or is it about Snooki?”
- #5485
Editor: “Crime can’t always be funny.”
- #5484
Copy editor: “Which foot had the bone spur?” Reporter: “It was one of them.”
- #5483
Reporter: “There’s a fine line between a reporter and a stalker.” Managing editor: “And lord knows I’ve been both.”
- #5482
Managing editor of a border newspaper to a reporter who is walking in from covering a drug shootout in Mexico: “We need to do something about your OT every time there’s a shooting across you go over.” The reporter still in an adrenaline rush replied as he took off his body armor: “Sure, let me [...]
- #5481
Managing Editor during fair week: “Oh, I could always go for a good heifer washin’.”
- #5480
Chief editor to employee, taking a few printed sheets from his desk: “I’m going to go outside, fire up a cigar, read this and see if you’re still gonna work here.”
- #5479
Business editor, squinting at intern’s computer screen: “Are those two guys kissing?”
- #5478
Anchor suggesting anti-teen pregnancy PSA copy: “Do you want to have fun, or you want to have a future? Don’t fornicate before your time.”
- #5477
Reporter: “How long do you want this?” Editor: “I don’t know, fifteen, eighteen inches?” Reporter: “This is my masterpiece. It’s 50.”
- #5476
Producer to newsroom after sitting through hours of breaking news: “Code red. Get me a catheter.”
- #5475
City editor after a reporter explains what a Tumblr is and why the paper should have one: “So, it’s like a blog orgy?”
- #5474
Police scanner: “We’ve got a call for a domestic at (location). They’re saying someone has a bottle and someone else is pregnant.”
- #5473
Intern reporter: “In less than 2 months, I’ve become the master of finding free food around here.” Photog: “Now THAT’S newsworthy!”
- #5472
Graphics staffer: “I’ve never understood what a nut graf is. It sounds like a surgical operation.”
- #5471
Junior sub editor to chief editor: “Why are you looking at the copies after they have gone to print?” Chief editor: “I am looking at all the changes we could have made if we had lots of time.”
- #5470
Editorial assistant: “It wouldn’t be the first time I was supposed to do something I wasn’t told.”
- #5469
Executive editor to the news staff: “I thought you all had scruples, but I can see I’ve finally beaten them out of you.”
- #5468
Copy chief to copy editor: “There are two schools of though on that, Jane: one is yes, the other no.”
- #5467
College paper Editor to Online Editor regarding the college morgue: “The college has a morgue? Must be where the Safety and Security Office sticks the nosy reporters.”
