Dive into the archives.
- #9312
Editor: “[Designer] thinks if she keeps sending me emails, I’m going to read them.”
- #9287
Assistant editor, about complaint over running the wrong day’s horoscope: “I’m not sure this woman leaves the house much. I offered to email them to her and she didn’t know what I meant.”
- #9281
Editor about the police scanner: “What did they say was in the road?” Cop reporter: “A boy.” Editor: “Oh. That’s my road. He’s a little shit.”
- #9279
City editor on the phone: “Wait, did you say hotmail.com? That’s why it isn’t working. I thought you said hogmail.com.”
- #9275
Online news writer: “I pressed some weird shortcut and now my keyboard is typing Arabic.”
- #9267
Senior reporter to young female reporter: “I wonder if I can find a way to use my newfound Twitter superpowers to help get you a nice husband.”
- #9247
Managing editor: “So Facebook, a company created by college students for college students wants to advertise with a college newspaper? Why?” Reporter: “It’s all a part of Zuckerberg’s plan to conquer the world.”
- #9245
Sub-Editor to Graphic Designer, who’s been hunched over his iPhone for a good half an hour: “Are you playing Draw Something?”
- #9230
News Editor: “If we auto-tuned this article, it would be a hit on YouTube.”
- #9225
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.”
- #9213
Meteorologist to producer: “I used my IFB when I went jogging yesterday. It’s awesome because it never falls out of your ear, but I was half expecting to hear time cues every 30 seconds.”
- #9205
Reporter 1, discussing advancements in technology: “The next thing to come will be a TV with a printer attached to it.” Reporter 2: “They have that. It’s called a computer.”
- #9181
Reporter: “I just had someone call me to ask what an iPad is. … It really is true: We’re Google for old people. Don’t know what something is? Call the paper. Don’t know when something is? Call the paper.”
- #9164
Reporter who is haphazardly clicking on ads on the website: “Oh no! Apparently I’m dating someone now.”
- #9160
“I’ve told the IT guy more than once — there are totally legit reasons for looking up pornography.”
- #9155
Editor when told to be patient dealing with the Interweb: “I’ve got no time to be patient.”
- #9150
Editor: “All my tweets smack of effort. That’s the problem.”
- #9096
Editor in chief to Lifestyles editor: “Don’t use too much drop shadow or I’ll punch you in the face.”
- #9087
Reporter looking at Pinterest: “Babies are cute. I can see why people have them.”
- #9079
Web producer to photographer: “I know I’m white, but do you have to use me for a white balance?”
