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  1. Web Manager: “Check how bad the site looks in IE 6.” Web Designer: “So? Who is using IE 6 still?” Web Manager: “Our GM.”
  2. Reporter greeting City Editor: “You’re smiling. Has there been a murder?”
  3. Producer after accidentally saving homepage with nothing on it: “Oh shit.” Web Editor: “What?” Producer: “Nothing. Just don’t hit refresh.”
  4. Sports Editor: “How do you spell ‘masturbate?’” News Editor: “You don’t.”
  5. Columnist filling out journalism contest entry form: “Shit. I almost put ‘alcohol’ where it asks you your hobbies.”
  6. Male Designer: “Philosophical question: ‘How does one move their hips like yeah?’” Female Designer: “I can’t show you at work.”
  7. An Associate Editor trash talking a Senior Editor: “It’s been fun watching her lately. Her articles are sucking harder than Creed live.”
  8. Editor 1: “Why’s this story ‘competitive’? I saw it on Gawker at noon.” Editor 2: “The story’s competitive; we aren’t.”
  9. “Explain to me why I can’t find a pen in this desk but there’s a drawer full of empty wine bottles.”
  10. Reporter, whose computer just crashed: “Are computers like dogs? Can they sense fear?”
  11. Wire Editor to Page Designer: “Hey, that new Pakistani terrorist leader is kinda cute.”
  12. Reporter: “So wait… you essentially want me to add 100 words worth of nothing. OK.”
  13. Reporter 1: “Do you think the newspaper will care if it doesn’t have news in it this week?” Reporter 2: “Nah, it’s used to it.”
  14. Just voted Overheard in the Newsroom for Best Site for Journalists http://mashable.com/owa #openwebawards
  15. “Oh, another furlough day. That’s like having sex and then finding out you have to pay for it.”
  16. Editor about finding a boyfriend: “I just use my press releases and pictures to pick out the good ones.”
  17. Copy Editor: “Why am I a journalist? I don’t even drink.”
  18. Managing Editor: “I keep my old business cards because I know demotion is likely.”
  19. Editor, on working the night shift: “I’m usually asleep right now.” Producer: “I’m usually drunk right now.”
  20. Editor: “Sometimes I feel like I’m married to my job, and she cheats on me when I’m not around.”