Tag Archives: Digital First Media

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

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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Newtown coverage highlighted on Inside Thunderdome blog

Check out this post by Steve Buttry on Digital First Media’s Inside Thunderdome blog about DFM’s extensive coverage of the Sandy Hook school massacre.

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

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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Digital First Media journalists in Newtown write about their experiences

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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Why The Associated Press remains the York Daily Record gold standard for calling an election

In a few hours, I hope and expect, The Associated Press will tell us who they have projected to win the 2012 presidential election. They will try to be the first in the nation to report this, but so will … Continue reading

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York Daily Record front page for Monday, Sept. 10, 2012

Other highlights from Monday’s newspaper: World Trade Center Memorial comes at steep price Frank Bodani: Penn State’s 2-0 record can help the rebuilding project Hot dogs running at the fair

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The Mobile Media Lab has become NewsVroom

Here is the latest on the Mobile Media Lab project in York: We have a name We have most of the equipment in hand or ordered We have an aggressive schedule through September We are launching a promotional campaign We … Continue reading

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Some things we do to attract you to the YDR’s digital sites

The YDR’s newsroom is continuously improving its workflows to attrack new audiences to its digital sites.

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Can newsrooms help lead a digital first transformation throughout the community?

I received an intriguing tweet the other day. @rparker717 @stevebuttry @jxpaton curious to know if you think that #digitalfirst could work as well in schools as it has for newspapers? It came from Doug Walters, who describes himself on Twitter … Continue reading

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How do you sum up the YDR? We took a whack at it, but go to our Wikipedia page for more

The York Daily Record newsroom produces a newspaper seven days a week, but that’s only a piece – albeit an important piece – of what we do. Buffy Andrews, our social media editor, asked me to sum up the York … Continue reading

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