10 Things That Are True About Every Newsroom in Existence: You've seen them in movies and TV shows. Your expectations have been set. But once set foot in your first newsroom, your dreams are shattered.
If you have spent more than 40 seconds in a newsroom you know what I’m talking about — the office furniture from the ’80s, the stained carpets, the smell of stale fast food. Newsrooms look like a rundown call center in Mumbai. The bad part of Mumbai. But it's in newsrooms where the first drafts of history are written.
Here are 10 things that every newsroom has in common.
You dreamed of working in a newsroom like the New York Times but ended up working in a newsroom that looks like a library that has thrown up.