This is a generic job description for journalists at the York Daily Record/Sunday News. These descriptions have been retooled from a print-centric emphasis to digitally oriented functions. A problem with this: As soon as they’re issued, they become dated with the wealth of new digital tools coming available. Perhaps now
Traditionally, newspapers measured their success in circulation – the number of papers sold each day. That’s how most of us referred to newspapers around the country. “Hey, I heard Bob got a job at the Baltimore Sun. They’re over 200,000, aren’t they?” Today, that measure does not begin to reflect
This is part of the York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News daily news budget, an oft-referenced tool in our newsroom. Several years ago, we reshaped the budget to reflect our growing push to put our stories and photos on a multitude of digital platforms – today known as web, mobile, tablets
Today, I sent out the following note to our editors. We want to challenge ourselves to significantly improve our blogs. You can check out our array of blogs at www.yorkblog.com. Any thoughts you have about improving the service that we can provide in this area would be appreciated. Look forward
We’ve written extensively on YDR Insider about all the emphasis in the York Daily Record/Sunday News newsroom on digital delivery of stories and photos. Our sister newspapers in Hanover, Chambersburg and Lebanon are key parts of the digital revolution, too. Scott Downs, publisher of our sister news organization in Lebanon,
I tried something new this week, designed to help readers get more involved in the newsroom process. Using a simple web cam at my desk, I recorded a video of me explaining what we are working on today. I posted that to our Facebook site. You can see Wednesday’s video
In the last couple of weeks, we have received a handful of complaints about some technical glitches involving our e-edition. That’s the online version of the newspaper itself, the version that is an exact replica of what rolls off the printing press each night. I’m not sure what caused the
I had a good time today talking to Cindy Hogentogler’s journalism class at Central York High School about opinion writing. She runs one of the top high school journalism programs in the county, and she regularly brings in YDR staffers to talk to students. I always look forward to my
I suspect this is a universal complaint filed with newspapers every year — at least in Pennsylvania. If we publish a photo in the newspaper of a deer that was shot and killed by a hunter, chances are great that we’ll receive at least one complaint about it. Depending
I was honored to accept the Public Service award at a recent Pennsylvania Newspaper Association event on behalf of the Daily Record/Sunday News staff for their work on the “Fat Battleground” series on obesity in York County. Following are my remarks: As opinion page editor, my involvement in special projects