Dive into the archives.
- #5949
Journalism student: “Why do we have to learn how the Gutenberg press worked?” Teacher: “This is important stuff, you need to know this.” Student: “I heard a lot of newspapers don’t have the newest technology, but I didn’t know it was THAT bad.”
- #5948
Copy editor: “Hey, I’m just glad (new copy editor) found the office today.”
- #5947
Editor 1: “The tea party has a COLORING BOOK?” Editor 2: “You expected words?”
- #5946
Reporter, after fixing an incorrectly spelled name in a story: “I appreciated being made to look intelligent. That’s always nice.”
- #5945
Copy editor to features editor: “You can’t change the English language to balance a headline.”
- #5944
About a copy editor: “She’s like a dictionary and a thesaurus combined … but with a personality!”
- #5943
Editor to Crime Reporter on election day: “No crime news today?” Reporter: “All the criminals are getting elected.”
- #5942
“I’m so tired of digging through numbers and people calling me a bully. I just need a good sex scandal.”
- #5941
Editor talking about a bureau: “You know what I like about working in this office? The fruit flies and the smell of sewage.”
- #5940
Contest entrant to reporter doing story about it: “Can you deliberately spell the other contestants names wrong so they don’t get Google alerts about this?”
- #5939
Reporter: “How about we say the mall has an ‘upscale urban pace’ instead of ‘bitchy city dwellers’?”
- #5938
Reporter 1: “Okay, time to pound out the rest of this story even though I really don’t want to.” Reporter 2: “Just pretend it’s something you do want to pound!”
- #5937
Editor: “If you’re still at work and they’re vacuuming, you know you’ve made the wrong career choice.”
- #5936
Reporter, looking at job postings: “What kind of newspaper typos the name of their city?”
- #5935
News reporter who works in bureau: “I kind of like it when somebody is murdered near the main city newsroom. It really takes the pressure off us in the bureau.”
- #5934
Managing editor: “I can post this to Facebook if I want, and I can like it!”
- #5933
Reporter, responding to an email where a source requested a specific title: “Well, I want to be listed as millionaire playboy and ruler of the universe, but newspapers might not list me that way when I get busted for murder.”
- #5932
Producer: “How do you spell the plural of penis? Is it ‘es’ at the end?”
- #5931
News editor about getting soaked in the rain: “I wanted to get a sweatshirt but they’re all in my car and they all smell like doughnuts.”
- #5930
Editor describing a newsroom fire: “I proved that, indeed, an unattended Pop-Tart can burst into flames.”
