Categories: OLD Media Moves

Business journalism humor

Had a few beers last night in New York with an editor at The Wall Street Journal and asked him about his casual dress since he had just come from work.

He said that Thursday’s at the Journal are known as “Pro Forma Fridays.”

Why? Since many people don’t work on Fridays, the casual dress day in the newsroom is now Thursday.

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.