Newsroom Innovator Mugs

'I'm a member of the non-traditional media.'

The trend toward less formal offices began to gain steam.

I have an idea - Let's sit around the campfire and watch scary movies on our iPads!

'You obviously took my suggestion to reduce stress to the extreme.'

'This one is for keeping 'On Message' in the spin wars.'

"Yes sir, I'll admit I was sceptical about the whole 'mini-office' concept at first..."

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"I like this Carl, you've come up with more solutions than we have problems."

"Well, I've emailed, faxed, and phoned Dobson. Maybe I should just walk down the hall and talk to him..."

Man at work sees in lounge refrigerator, 'Creative Juices'

'I think and work spectacularly well either inside or outside the box.'

BREAKING FAKE NEWS

He's our ideas man. I can never tell if he's working or not.

News for Sale

"Yes, it's different...but I don't think Fondue Friday is going to last."

"Wow! That's some PowerPoint presentation."

You're right-this is way better than a standing desk.

Dare to be different.

Modular Offices

"Terri and Kip make up our crazy dreamer imagineering department. Al is our get-realinator."

'Does anyone have a question?'

'I hate these cliche situations!'

'As all coherent strategy has failed, we turn to you.'

"The coffee is free, but now we rent the tables."

'We finally came up with a cubicle design that really works.'

'I'll be happy to put my best man on it, Mr. Orton... but my best man happens to be a woman.'

Social Networks.

"You know our 'Never-Overwhelm-The-Reader' policy. Your story is irrelevant, trivial and stupid but not irrelevant, trivial and stupid enough."

An expletive of editors

"Does it not gladden the heart to see Lowry adapt so well to our new low overhead policy?"

"They got rid of 'work from home,' so I pushed for 'blanket forts from office.'"

"O.K., Chief! Hang on to your socks!"

"Lawrence can't be here for the presentation, so his drone will hover in for him."

'What if, and I know this sounds kooky, we communicated with the employees.'

'What's this, Dawkins?another of you 'visual metaphors'?'