A recent visit from the middle school librarian from Dallastown offered an interesting moment of insight for many of us at the York Daily Record. Jen Hendry, through the Educator In The Workplace program, spent three days in the newsroom, the Advertising department and the Audience Development department. In short,
FlipSidePA received a little bit of a home page makeover last week to create a better user experience. Instead of a topical breakdown on the home page, we’ve created a “river” of entertainment news (with much help from Keith Hartman and Brad Jennings), highlighting the most recent news and features
With the recent completion of the Gannett Company’s spinoff of its publishing division, employees from the York Daily Record, The Evening Sun (Hanover), Chambersburg Public Opinion and the Lebanon Daily News took to Twitter to celebrate a #NewGannett. See their excitement in the Storify below. [View the story “A new
The earliest known copy of Die York Gazette is dated May 20, 1796, No. 14. If you back up 14 weeks – assuming weekly publication – that means the German-language newspaper started in early 1796. Longtime Gazette & Daily owner J.W. Gitt maintained the newspaper, forerunner to his publication and
Around York County: Stories are everywhere … . When YDR journos are out in the public, we see stories everywhere. Here’s one from an invite for a staff member to present at a lively community organization. Ninety-something-year-old drummer Eugene Budesheim taps away at a Dallastown Golden Agers’ gathering, where he
From time to time, this question comes up in the newsroom: What is “downtown York”?
Every day, I try to be creative and think outside the box and connect with what’s going on around me. The content I create enriches what we have online and sometimes attracts readers who might not otherwise be interested. For example, I watch Game of Thrones and the Season 5
Ice cream cake for new and departing Teen Takeover students. pic.twitter.com/2CA5vw3LDS — Ed Mahon (@edmahonreporter) June 11, 2015 Another Teen Takeover season is in the books. But the team of high school journalists who train with York, Pa. Daily Record staff members and then submit their stories and photos for
Nine more journalists joined Digital First Media’s peer-support efforts at a seminar June 3 in Pittsfield, Mass. led by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s Bruce Shapiro and Elana Newman. The seminar came a few weeks after a similar workshop at the York Daily Record attended by 15 journalists
I went to the Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Philadelphia last week. Here are eight things I learned or remembered. 1. There are many cool ways of telling stories with Tableau Public. #IRE15 #getexcited @vinfro pic.twitter.com/bufqNFBxzC — Ed Mahon (@edmahonreporter) June 4, 2015 I’ve used DataWrapper, Infogram and Fusion Tables.