Dive into the archives.
- #3505
Copy Desk Chief, after first run: “Well, that was a shit sandwich.”
Copy Editor: “Just keep on shoveling.”
- #3468
Production Manager over the intercom: “Attention everyone … The server gods have shined upon us once again. We’re back up and running.”
- #3409
Photo Editor giving directions to the Pentagon to a Photographer:
Photog: “I’m not sure which side is the south side. But I know 2 sides.”
Photo Editor: “Well it has five sides.”
- #3372
Night City Editor explaining why typeset deadline was missed the night before: “Everything was fine until somebody said out loud who won the ‘Bachelor’ finale.”
- #3348
Reporter #1: “Did anyone notice the pointer on the front page said the man was dead, but in the story on page 2 he is in a critical condition?”
Reporter #2: “Oh, well. He will probably die — so we break yet another story first.”
- #3346
Copy Editor waiting for local stories to a chatty City Editor: “Less yakkin’ and more hackin’!”
- #3306
Producer, forced to add yet another map to his show: “I’ve made more maps tonight than Rand McFuckingNally!”
- #3303
“Deadlines are the laxative of journalism.”
- #3267
Page Designer realizing there are more things due than are physically possible in one week: “You know, if you do the math… we’re fucked.”
- #3227
Newly hired Copy Editor: “I had a great first night, everything went smooth, everyone was so helpful.”
Other Copy Editor: “Yeah. Don’t count on that tonight.”
- #3216
“Wow, tight deadlines, constant phone calls, chasing down leads — this is one of those days when I feel like a work for a real newspaper.”
- #3214
Reporter: “Is the paper on the press yet? I misspelled someone’s name.”
Editor: “How bad?”
- #3191
News Editor to Designer: “Do your job!”
Designer: “Do your job!”
News Editor: “I’m done, that’s why I can look at puppies!”
- #3177
Real Estate Reporter procrastinating: “I wrote my lede!” (30 minutes later) “Ok, I wrote a sentence. Well, not a whole sentence, but the first part of a sentence with an essential clause.”
- #3166
Reporter #1: “Why can’t we use the water fountains as urinals?”
Reporter #2: “I’m not drinking out of a piss fountain.”
Reporter #1: It’d be really convenient a lot of times though, you have to admit.”
