Breaking News/Locator Maps

Bond-Map

Development-Map

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Map-1

Outer-Loop-Map

Parolees-Map

Ranch-Map

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Wreck-Map

Maps are always the hardest things to come up with, particularly when we decide at 4:30 in the afternoon for a 6 p.m. deadline: “Hey, don’t we have a map for that somewhere?” Sure, we COULD just turn to Google, but alas, duty calls..

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Overheard in the Newsroom

#5480

Chief editor to employee, taking a few printed sheets from his desk: “I’m going to go outside, fire up a cigar, read this and see if you’re still gonna work here.”

#5479

Business editor, squinting at intern’s computer screen: “Are those two guys kissing?”

#5478

Anchor suggesting anti-teen pregnancy PSA copy: “Do you want to have fun, or you want to have a future? Don’t fornicate before your time.”

#5477

Reporter: “How long do you want this?” Editor: “I don’t know, fifteen, eighteen inches?” Reporter: “This is my masterpiece. It’s 50.”

#5476

Producer to newsroom after sitting through hours of breaking news: “Code red. Get me a catheter.”

#5475

City editor after a reporter explains what a Tumblr is and why the paper should have one: “So, it’s like a blog orgy?”

#5474

Police scanner: “We’ve got a call for a domestic at (location). They’re saying someone has a bottle and someone else is pregnant.”

#5473

Intern reporter: “In less than 2 months, I’ve become the master of finding free food around here.” Photog: “Now THAT’S newsworthy!”

#5472

Graphics staffer: “I’ve never understood what a nut graf is. It sounds like a surgical operation.”

#5471

Junior sub editor to chief editor: “Why are you looking at the copies after they have gone to print?” Chief editor: “I am looking at all the changes we could have made if we had lots of time.”