Hours after a copy editor and online producer talk about about putting “yoga pants” in a headline to get readers interested in a boring story.
Copy editor: “… I have to do all these word gymnastics.“
Online: "Word gymnastics?”
Copy editor: “That’s why yoga pants are so popular.”
(Busy news day with multiple fires and shootings)
Weekend editor: “Oh my god! This is crazy! I’m going to murder someone!”
Reporter: “Well I’m the only one here, so if you do murder someone, it’ll be me. And you’ll be the one that has to report on it.”
Weekend editor: “Fine. I won’t murder anyone.”
“I dropped my Pringles. Well, now I’ve got more Pringles.”
Designer 1 “Ok I checked your page”
Designer 2 “I checked it too!”
Designer of said page “I’ve been double checked and I don’t even get a discount ...”
Reporter: “He likes art because he ‘gets attention from girls.’ Leave it to a high school kid to say that.”
Sports: “Of course he does. Some of us need all the help we can get.”
Social media desk to the rest of the newsroom: “I’m bored. Someone tweet something problematic so I can drag you in a twitter roundup.”
“I wish I had a nickel for every time we’ve run the word ‘trump’ in a headline.”
*entire newsroom talking about going out for food after paper is put to bed*
assistant news editor: “we need a pizza budget for these nights”
photo editor: “oh, that would be awesome”
“I gotta start going to more funerals.”
Reporter: “Who doesn’t love prostitution?”
Managing editor, reading email from reporter: “On Thursday morning, I have to be in [nearby city] at 9 to give lessons on writing. I have purchased a book called Writing for Dummies and plan to spend all night studying before I go out.”
Managing editor, reading a hot tip from the publisher’s elderly mother: “There’s 32 birds sitting on a wire in front of Goodwill right now.”
“If you don’t stop pushing me, I’m going to take my dream job at the Home Depot.”
Broadcast Editor: “Who are you interviewing at 4?”
Photo Editor: “A member from this ba-…SANDWICHES!”.
Reporter: Journalists are just legal stalkers.