A conversation during a meeting with the living staff… Southpaw: When I was a kid I lined up all of my action figures. Assistant Features Editor: You still do. Southpaw silently hangs his head.
Author: YDR Insider
In this age of instant online communications, it’s surprising how many traditional letters to the editor we still get. There’s really been no drop-off in letters over the last decade. We try to get them processed, verified, edited and online – then into print – as quickly as possible. But
Two recent additions to Buffy’s World include the “Something About” series and Tweet Moments. “Something About…” feature introduces some of the local peeps who work and play in the wonderful world of social media. You’ll find them on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Linkedin and a screenful of other social media platforms.
The Sunday night shift in any newsroom is, more often than not, pretty quiet. And except for that little email I got from the White House saying Vice President Joe Biden was coming to York’s Goode Elementary School on Tuesday, this past Sunday was no different. Regardless of your political
It’s not often but sometimes you get a note that makes your day. Yesterday, for instance, I got a note from the Prowler Staff at Central York High School thanking me for my recent visit. While there, I talked to the student journalists about the importance of social media in
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I’m often asked what I mean when I use the term crowdsourcing in discussions about using social-networking platforms to help report stories. Here’s my answer.
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York Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Paul Kuehnel captures Vice President Joe Biden in an Alexander D. Goode Elementary School fourth-grade class. An obscure news release – arriving with government efficiency in the YDR newsroom late Sunday afternoon via our sister newspaper the Hanover Evening Sun – set our newsroom
Many people ask: Why doesn’t the newspaper sign its editorials? Are you cowards – unwilling to stand behind your positions? Are you embarrassed? Why do you insist letter writers use their names when you don’t sign your editorials? Good questions. I always start my answer with this: We DO sign