Dive into the archives.
- #8807
Photog handing off memory cards: “Here are the chips from the scene.” Producer: “Thanks for putting all your chips on the table.”
- #8801
Reporter listening to scanner: “There’s a chase involving a man with a moped.” Editor: “Do we know why he’s being chased?” Reporter: “Could be for traffic violation, drugs or three murders, who knows? I’ll keep listening.” Editor: “Great. Red Rum is exactly what we need.”
- #8794
Editor, while another editor is using a manual pencil sharpener: “What’s that sound?” Reporter: “It sounds like the 1990s.”
- #8783
Reporter: “If I ever meet the people who created the Census Bureau’s website, I might kick them in the shins.”
- #8781
Reporter wrangling Excel document for new electronic mileage reimbursement: “This may be where I finally draw the line and can’t learn anymore. You know? This could be it.”
- #8777
Exec Prod on competitor’s traffic cam footage: “It looks significant, but maybe it’s because there’s a blinking light there.”
- #8760
Copy Editor: “Speaking of Weiner, did you check your email?”
- #8759
Reporter 1: “Did you hear the photographer got leveled at the football game?” Reporter 2: “Is the camera OK?”
- #8745
Reporter on her cell phone: “Sorry, I didn’t mean to call you. I was deleting you from my favorites.”
- #8733
Managing Editor: “I swear every time the phone rings, my blood pressure goes up.”
- #8699
Web Developer: “We are getting a number of 500 server errors.” Publisher: “That sounds like a big number. Is that a lot?”
- #8647
New editor to veteran editor, concerning Avid: “I need to master TimeWarp.” Veteran: “I need to master time.”
- #8642
Veteran assignment editor to new reporter: “Any light on any phone that’s blinking? That’s for you.”
- #8636
“You can use the live truck, you’ll just have to climb up top and shake down the mast.”
- #8621
Editor: “We need a new way to mark stories. Instead of ‘Ready’ it should be, ‘I’m just tired of looking at it.’”
- #8619
Director talking about broken camera: “Step one: FIX! Step two: IT! Step three: FIX IT!”
- #8614
Editor to reporter with no Twitter profile picture: “I cannot allow you to remain an egg any longer!”
- #8584
Reporter on deadline while Internet is down throughout community: “I’m heading to California. I heard there might be some Internet out there.”
- #8582
Reporter: “News Edit Pro is slightly better than a typewriter — slightly.”
- #8569
Reporter, at copy machine: “I’m sorry, I probably jammed it.” Editor: “Did you close Door A? What’s this about Tray B?” Reporter: “Maybe if I stand on one leg and hop up and down.”
