Freelance Journalist Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. someone you respect blocks you on Twitter
2. invited as a guest on a podcast or local news network
3. nitpicky "correction" email when there was no error
4. unpaid invoice, 60 days past due
5. you get invited to a super seekret slack
6. compliment from reader who doesn't want anything
7. can't start work b/c you have to hurry up and wait
8. interviewee no-shows in person or for a call
9. social media hate for headline you didn't write
10. source asks for off-the-record after interview is complete
11. you didn't regret reading the comments
12. veiled legal threat from a source or stranger
13. stranger thinks you're a fiction author
14. someone wants to talk to you about your attitude
15. you're confused with someone else
16. actually helpful conference call with the team
17. "friend" only contacts you for editor names
18. three badly pitched PR emails in one day
19. missing a social event or gym class to work more
20. bonafide rare compliment from an editor
21. editor pretends an assignment wasn't assigned
22. amazing press event you can't cover b/c COI
23. someone thinks you're unemployed
24. conference call that should've been an email