Email from long-time subscriber: “Why do I have to pay to read YDR online when I am on vacation?” My response (in part): “The short answer is that there is a cost for us to provide the stories and photos that are online. Many of these stories and photos appear
After 41 years at the York Daily Record, Gloria Fogal retires on Friday. You can read about her career in another post, but I’d like to share a glimpse into an important part of this newsroom that she is taking with her. Gloria started with the YDR in 1970, and
In an earlier blog post about the foundational values of the York Daily Record/Sunday News, Editor Jim McClure showed that accuracy is a prime target for us. Among our 14 Core Operating Competencies, accuracy stands clear and tall. Here’s how we describe the goal: We strive for 100 percent accuracy.
A colleague posed a common question this morning. An acquaintance of his wondered how to find a story in the newspaper from the 1950s. She even had it down to the date. Where could she find that story?
A terrific dialogue has ensued in a recent post I made here at the YDR Insider. It’s exactly the type of conversation we were looking for when we launched this blog site. I shared an email exchange I had with a reader named Cathy, who was not happy about our
A couple of posts about the paywall – the online subscriptions – charged for ydr.com and associated sites have generated long threads of comments. That good. We welcome the dialogue. (Check out the comments on: A reader offers ydr.com advice on the paywall and Three months into paywall, reader complaints
This was in my fortune cookie at lunch today: Prosperity belongs to those who can learn new things the fastest. Amen, brother.
Sometimes people just complain. But once in a while, people who have a complaint offer real, tangible options to consider. This happened recently when I received an email titled “You’ve lost a reader.” The woman who wrote this said it would be OK for me to write about our exchange,
Managing editor Randy Parker has already written an excellent post about how we handle reader complaints and concerns about all of the dead-deer photos that we publish in the York Daily Record/Sunday News. As Parker states: “[I]n other parts of the paper, we will run scores and scores of photos
I just received a phone call that wiped away all the difficult, trying and unappreciated efforts that are part of working in a newsroom. Ruth Lentz called to let us know that the article about her husband this past Sunday had spawned an outpouring of support and praise. This was