This graphs shows growth of our Facebook audience from four counties – York, Adams, Franklin and Lebanon – and beyond. Many journalists will tell you that math wasn’t their best subject. In fact, some will say they got into journalism because they couldn’t mesh with math. But the Web reaquainted
‘Grump’ is part of his email address, but he’s anything but. He’s been active in the community forever and a hands-on enthusiast of York County history. So I winced a bit in reading his email:
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
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
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,
Two newsroom discussions last week reveal various pieces about the controversial question: Should news organizations charge readers for Web access to stories and photos, sometimes called online subscriptions, implemented through construction of a paywall? In an update meeting on how our 3 1/2 month online subscriptions are faring, a journalist
The Chambersburg, Pa., Public Opinion’s Facebook site is a popular place that effectively brings together the Franklin County community. The site hosted a recent conversation on paywalls, or online subscriptions. Becky Bennett, editor of our sister news organization in Chambersburg, west of Adams County, has provided a guest post to
The design or look of ydr.com and our news organization’s other websites display the work of our visual department more prominently than previous designs. (We call it a visual department because it produces photos, graphics, videos, livestream feeds, among other things.) Above is a sample from what we call ydr.com’s
Soon after we started charging for access to our website, the requests for free subscriptions started right in. This was not something we had anticipated and we needed to quickly pull together a logical and consistent response. The requests came from places such as the local libraries, non-profit groups, and