I don’t know what people did before email. We still get a ton of news releases through the office fax machine, and although it frequently jams or runs out of ink, it’s still a useful tool. Most of the time. After one particular release came through, it’s easy to see
I think the dress code for cops reporters should include hip waders. A fairly new pair of brown flats were the most recent casualty in the battle of gathering news. No matter how many times I’ve scrubbed them, the mud remains caked on the fabric. I’m usually more careful about
Here are two fun facts for you to dazzle your friends with at your next get-together: York County has 72 municipalities and 16 public school districts. Wanna know why I know this? Because part of my job entails managing news correspondents, who are the people we work with to cover
Late one September night I walked down a dark alley behind several row homes in York City. I was looking for a woman I knew lived on the block — but I didn’t know which home and I had only her first name to go by. I saw a man
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 my first journalism class in college, we learned that the fourth estate is a watchdog for the community. And what illustrates that better than … ELECTION SEASON!? If you’ve been around the office lately, you’ve probably heard me grumbling at the hours it took me to compile election-related documents.
Several times a week, they arrive in my email. They are death announcements from the Department of Defense – notifications of someone who has died in Afghanistan or Iraq, sometimes elsewhere. I click on the unwanted news with trepidation. It’s like a lottery no one wants to win. The message
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,
The Sunday night shift in any newsroom is, more often than not, pretty quiet. And except for that little email I got from the White House saying Vice President Joe Biden was coming to York’s Goode Elementary School on Tuesday, this past Sunday was no different. Regardless of your political
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