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‘Gettysburg 150 facts about the 150th,’ an iPad app developed by four Digital First Media newsrooms, is a finalist for the Eppy Award, Editor & Publisher’s 18th annual contest. This is a page from the app.
Police reporter Ted Czech garnered 5,826 views on his Touts from the first week in September — No. 1 for all of Digital First Media Touts. What are his secrets of success?
What was going on in York County this morning? Check out a recap below:
York,Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News photographer Jason Plotkin’s Gettysburg 150 photograph received more than 500 YDR Facebook likes. Here was the FB question: “Re-enactor Patrick McCarthy gets down on one knee as he asks his girlfriend Anna Jennings to marry him at the Gettysburg 150th celebration today. Wanna guess what she said?” This photo was part of the work produced by more than 40 Digital First Media journalists covering the Battle of Gettysburg’s 150th anniversary.
York, Pa., Daily Record/Sunday News graphic artist Samantha Dellinger won a DFMie for her design of this memorable front page, published upon the death of Penn State icon Joe Paterno. The NewsVroom also was a key part of an entry that won a DFMie for community engagement. One of the
The Redoubt is the name coined for the satellite newsroom at Gettysburg Seminary on, yes, Seminary Ridge that four Digital First Media newsrooms will use to cover Gettysburg150. The York Daily Record/Sunday News, Hanover Evening Sun, Chambersburg Public Opinion and Lebanon Daily News will combine staffs in covering the 150th anniversary event in and around Gettysburg. Evening Sun Editor Marc Charisse, who named ‘The Redoubt,’ said that at the end of the first day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg, the remnants of the Iron Brigade constructed a breastworks so named near the satellite newsroom’s seminary site.
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East York resident Brenda Bahn will be working on election day. All of election day. “We start at 6 a.m., cannot leave, and don’t get out of (the polling place) till 8:30 or 9 p.m.” Bahn said.