Category Archives: Digital first

Local explains election day from other side of the curtain

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Mike Spiro

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.

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Reporting from Boston: City recovers from terror, bombings and shoot outs

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Ashley May

It wasn’t until Dorchester resident John Spadaccini started crying that I began to understand the reason I had to come to Boston.

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Facebook engagement for the York Daily Record/Sunday News in February 2013

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Kara Eberle

To help gauge our Facebook engagement, we’re taking a look at the top 5 posts each month that people are talking about most.

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The York Daily Record story, as told to a good friend

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Randy Parker

NOTE: Tonight, I am giving a virtual tour of our newsroom to the Cub Scout pack that my friend’s son is in. We are doing this via Skype on iPad because the boys live in the Philadelphia area. The following … Continue reading →

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Norman Schwarzkopf passed away, and York County didn’t have much to say

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Mark Walters

When former General Norman Schwarzkopf passed away on Dec. 27, it was suggested to me by my boss that I put out a post on the York Daily Record’s Facebook page to see if there were any local Gulf War … Continue reading →

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YDR publisher talks about media transformation

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jim McClure

Sara Glines presented on changes in the newspaper business to York Rotary.

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The spread of the flu from a journalist’s perspective

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Hannah Sawyer

A week ago, we weren’t talking about the flu. Friday morning, it will be sprawled across our front page and was already covered in our York City Limits blog. The flu epidemic it seems, cropped up almost literally overnight. Or rather, the media … Continue reading →

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Digital First Media journalists in Newtown write about their experiences

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Scott Blanchard

York Daily Record staffers Lauren Boyer, Chris Dunn, John Hilton, Rebecca LeFever and Brandie Kessler have spent time over the past week helping the New Haven Register, a sister paper to the YDR, cover the school shooting.

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A reporter in Newtown: Everywhere we turn, we meet ‘gracious souls’

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Scott Blanchard

I started Wednesday covering Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung’s wake. The anxiety quickly disappeared after the first two people I interviewed thanked me for covering the story.

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Why York journalists are covering the shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Randy Parker

Some readers have noticed that YDR reporter Lauren Boyer and Photographer Chris Dunn have been reporting from Newtown, Conn., this week in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. And some are asking why. Why would a … Continue reading →

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