Overheard in the Newsroom » Deadline

#9243

OHnewsroom — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:09:50 +0000

Web editor, after standing up to answer the phone: “Wow, I haven’t stood up in awhile. It must feel like taking a vitamin, or seeing the sun or something.”

#9225

OHnewsroom — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:12:55 +0000

Editor: “Our phones in the newsroom seem to have gone down.”

IT support: “Can you get by for the night without them?”

Editor: “Well, we are trying to put out a newspaper. So probably not.”

#9214

OHnewsroom — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:59:57 +0000

Editor, after receiving notice of a murder-suicide: “They always die after deadline.”

#9175

OHnewsroom — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:11:37 +0000

Editor to reporter on making a brief of four bodies found in the ocean into a story: “Yeah, four bodies ain’t a brief.”

#9166

OHnewsroom — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 03:56:23 +0000

Reporter after being told to go live from a site he just returned from: “We don’t make sense, we make news!”

#9155

OHnewsroom — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:55:34 +0000

Editor when told to be patient dealing with the Interweb: “I’ve got no time to be patient.”

#9120

OHnewsroom — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:35:42 +0000

Producer: “I can’t be killed by this tornado right now, I haven’t finished putting this story on the website!”

#9098

OHnewsroom — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:42:23 +0000

City editor: “How’s it going?”

Reporter: “I’m doing fine, but I’m sure you’re not since I haven’t typed a word of my story yet.”

#9090

OHnewsroom — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:39:36 +0000

Assignment editor to photographer: “The trouble with civilians is that they don’t understand the emergency of everything.”

#9073

OHnewsroom — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:16:49 +0000

City editor to reporters: “I can’t even tell you what a mindfuck it is to get all your stories at 11 p.m. I don’t want you all fucking me at once.”