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- #8662
Editor: “We’re not gonna make it, no! We’re not gonna make it! We’re not gonna make, the deadliiiineeee!”
- #8661
Online editor after a night of corralling season-finale high school football scores: “If there was such a thing, we’d be the No. 1 seed … to the journalism playoffs.”
- #8647
New editor to veteran editor, concerning Avid: “I need to master TimeWarp.” Veteran: “I need to master time.”
- #8630
Reporter: “This story keeps getting shorter the further we get past four o’clock.”
- #8621
Editor: “We need a new way to mark stories. Instead of ‘Ready’ it should be, ‘I’m just tired of looking at it.’”
- #8602
Producer to sidelined Anchor, nervous about driving a live truck to breaking news: “The fastest way to end your contract is between you and a light pole.”
- #8597
Reporter to editor discussing a quote: “Do you want me to cut it?” Editor: “I’m thinking about it.” Reporter: “It’s okay. I’m like a mother duck with my stories. I know a few chicks are going to be road kill.”
- #8586
Editor: “No one gives a flying fuck what you think. Now cobble together an editorial that reflects the publisher’s viewpoint and let’s get outta here. The bar closes in an hour.”
- #8585
“Anyone got some high value ‘crap-tent’ that we can post online?”
- #8582
Reporter: “News Edit Pro is slightly better than a typewriter — slightly.”
- #8571
Tired editor to reporter: “Do that brief last… or don’t do it, if you don’t want to.”
- #8562
Reporter discussing possible assignment: “Mom stabs son?!” Assignment Editor: “Just in the knee.” Reporter: “Nevermind.”
- #8559
Editor in chief: “Is anyone in here not doing something?” Arts and Entertainment editor: “Does leaving count as something?”
- #8558
Assignment Desk Editor: “How is it that we have seedless watermelons, but I can’t get a damn SAT shot tuned in?”
- #8529
Night metro editor announces that she’s holding — yet again — a story about tractor accidents. Metro editor: “That poor tractor story is never gonna get in.” Night metro editor: “Yeah, well it ain’t like that guy is gonna grow his foot back. It can hold.”
- #8528
Photo editor: “No barfing in the newsroom.” AME: “Barfing’s fine. Just don’t die.”
- #8524
Designer: “We have waved goodbye to deadline. Soon we will be giving it the middle finger.”
- #8522
Deputy Editor to Editor on a particularly difficult day: “Can I get you a cup of tea? Or maybe some ecstasy?”
- #8505
Editor: “What stories are you doing?” Reporter: “What am I not doing?” Editor: “OK, what are you not doing?” Reporter: “Work.”
- #8497
Reporter filling in as editor-in-chief for the day: “Just changed a mayoral candidate’s activity from ‘United Meth’ to ‘United Methodist.’ I’ll put that down as a ‘good catch’ by me.”
