Overheard in the Newsroom

#3501

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:42 +0000

Assignment Editor: “I’m sending you a picture of a truck in a pond.”

Web Producer: “I’m sending you a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.”

#3500

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:30 +0000

“The world’s biggest pencil? What’s the point of that?”

#3499

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:00:57 +0000

City Editor calling the senior citizen’s center after hearing a possible fire call on the scanner: “Hey, can you tell me if you guys are on fire over there?”

#3498

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:00:22 +0000

Online conversation between two Reporters in different markets:

Reporter #1: “What are you doing?”

Reporter #2: “Not much. It’s pretty slow. Nobody has been shot in like the last four hours.”

#3497

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:28 +0000

Editor: “He did what? To who? Where? And with what now? This is what you’re paid to tell ME!”

#3496

OHnewsroom — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:39:48 +0000

Photographer: “Now can I go back to the bar?”

Copy Editor: “Only if I get to come with you.”

#3495

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:30:14 +0000

Designer doing a cutout: “I’ve spent more time inside Edie Falco’s crotch than any man ever should.”

#3494

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:31:58 +0000

TV Photographer to Asst. News Director: “I saw the best bumper sticker last night! It said, ‘TV is to News what Bumper Stickers are to Philosophy.”

Asst. News Director: “Ha! That’s so true.”

#3493

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:22:43 +0000

Reporter proofing a sports page with a swimming portrait: “Is this the high-definition nipple picture they were talking about?”

#3492

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:10:57 +0000

Web Editor having trouble writing a headline: “Maybe I should try actually reading the story before writing the headline.”

#3491

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:55 +0000

Editor-in-Chief: “Thank you for coming.”

Reporter: “That’s what she said.”

Online Editor: “(Name)!”

Reporter: “Sorry it just slipped out.”

Online Editor: “That’s what she said.”

#3490

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:30:47 +0000

In a memo: “Please don’t use the newsroom copier. It is setting paper on fire. Repairman has been notified.”

#3489

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:15:40 +0000

Reporter #1: “We aren’t allowed to eat at our desks anymore. Apparently we’re going upscale.”

Reporter #2: “Meals or does this include donuts, M&M’s and these really stale crackers?”

#3488

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:13 +0000

Cop on scanner: “There’s about 100 Chinese people marching with flags toward city hall. Did we know that?”

#3487

OHnewsroom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:16:31 +0000

Assignment Editor: “I’m calling Oklahoma to see if they’re covering the ex-husband who lit his ex-wife on fire.”

Producer: “He was just trying to re-kindle the romance.”