The List

#3 free food

#5 the good old days

#7 election day

#8 the first day

#9 coffee

#10 drinking

#11.5% statistics

#12 inverted pyramids

#13 awards

#14 bylines

#15 reporter's notebooks

#16 police scanners

#17 breaking news

#18 hometown heroes

#19 readers’ feedback

#20 nut grafs

#21 All the President's Men

#22 interns

#23 ap stylebooks

#24 trends

#25 pandemics

#26 writing a book

#27 corrections

#28 inches

#29 exclusives

#30 press releases

#31 professional organizations

#32 press passes

#33 shorthand

#35 name dropping

#36 being Tasered

#37 exotic assignments

#38 NPR

#39 gadflies

#41 scandals

#42 corporations

#43 anonymous sources

#44 Barack Obama

#45 Jon Stewart

#46 Stephen Colbert

#47 moonlighting

#48 desk dining

#50 Google

#51 jargon

#53 The Onion

#55 outsmarting spell check

#56 dressing differently

#57 vending machines

#61 cursing

#63 procrastinating

#64 college newspapers

#65 Post-it notes

#69 dating other journalists

#72 swag

#73 citizen journalism

#75 low pay

#84 writing standing up

#85 abbrvtns

#86 working holidays

#88 McPaper (USA Today)

#89 electricity

#92 fedoras

#95 political correctness

#99 year in reviews

#101 weather stories

#112 press areas

#119 Twitter

#121 furloughs

#142 crazy people

#159 throwing shoes

#181 Firefox

#201 being nice (to horrible people)

#312 The Wire

#340 covering Apple

#356 holograms

#666 layoffs