Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz reporters know how to play guitar

Sara Goo of The Washington Post tech team blogs Monday that the business desk’s representativs in a recent newsroom Guitar Hero contest came away the winners in a battle against the metro and food desks.

Goo wrote, “The battle of the virtual bands happened last week, when we hooked up two guitars from the game in our conference room and battled a combined team from Metro and Food sections. (With all those Metro reporters, they still didn’t have enough people who knew how to play.) Needless to say, it was no contest.

“Check out this photo of Sam Diaz. Sorry, but I couldn’t find one of Mike Musgrove rockin’ out, but he was our secret weapon. Yesterday, we got our reward: fancy chocolates from Metro Editor Robert McCartney and homemade salty oat cookies from Food Editor Joe Yonan. Next, we’re thinking about challenging those crazy reporters over on the national desk. What do you think? You got a team ready for us?”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.