York Daily Record/Sunday News staff members call this section of flagship website ydr.com ‘Editors Picks.’ The staff updates this section’s stories and photos regularly each day. It’s Exhibit A in our news organization’s pursuit of immediacy. When we prepared for installation of online subscriptions or paywalls on our five websites,
The YDR/YSN/ydr.com just observed an anniversary of sorts this week – two months with online subcriptions. Actually, such subscriptions – often called paywalls – have been in place on ydr.com for more than a year. That paywall covered only part of our content – the stuff that was in print.
There are some days on this job where you sit back and shake your head at what you’ve just heard. Yesterday was one of them. I was finishing up a round of candidate interviews for the upcoming election, and my last call was to the always candid Toni Smith. Smith,
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