Overheard in the Newsroom » Technology

#5455

OHnewsroom — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:15:41 +0000

IT: “Are you guys moving in the building or out?”

Composing manager: “No, we’ve been in this building for over 100 years.”

IT: “You mean it always looks like this?”

#5448

OHnewsroom — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:08:03 +0000

Slot editor: “My pen just ran out of ink. I’m going home.”

#5447

OHnewsroom — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:07:20 +0000

Producer, watching audio op use board: “It’s like a space shuttle.”

#5446

OHnewsroom — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:06:47 +0000

City editor on series of e-mails between himself and reader about the news site not having an hourly front-page weather update: “I mean, (readers) like that don’t really bother me anymore, but fuck you—I’m so sorry you have to click on the big sun to see the weather.”

#5433

OHnewsroom — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:49:28 +0000

Copy Desker: “(Our Photographer) says there is only 56 KB left in e-mailing the photo.”

Sports Editor: “Is he on dial-up?”

#5427

OHnewsroom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:19 +0000

Sales guy, about document coming out of printer: “Is that me?”

Reporter, reading document: “‘The virgin without sin’?”

Sales guy: “Definitely not me!!!”

#5426

OHnewsroom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:34:38 +0000

Reporter to others on conference call: “If you search ‘poop’ in the headline, you’ll find it.”

#5421

OHnewsroom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:59:43 +0000

“There is a Facebook page telling me to get out of journalism… that’s so weird.”

#5420

OHnewsroom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:10:51 +0000

Newsroom office manager after spending hours on a sports dating site: “What am I doing I want a handyman not a jock.”

#5417

OHnewsroom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:04:37 +0000

Editor of an email newsletter: “Really, what I didn’t mean to do was send a video of half-naked women to everyone.”