Categories: OLD Media Moves

Philly Inquirer business editor rocks out

Philadelphia Inquirer business editor Karl Stark is among the newsroom staffers to rock out in the paper’s contribution to the National Brain Tumor Society’s Air Guitar Challenge.

The Inquirer staff donned the finest fake beards for their take on ZZ Top’s “La Grange.”

Stark is seen in the video at the one-minute mark, losing his hat on a conference room table.

In an email to Talking Biz News, Stark wrote, “This is what business news will drive you to do.”

The video also features Jane Von Bergen, who covers labor and workplace issues, around 45 seconds in and Jonathan Takiff, who covers tech and startups, at the 3-minute mark.

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.