Tag Archives: Twitter

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

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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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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Twitter tutorial: Getting started

If you’ve been wondering about Twitter and how to get started, check out my tutorial. I’ll walk you through setting up the account and share some basics. I also have created other tutorials, including Storify, Geofeedia and much more.

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GatheringPoint is expanding how we share news

We’ve been doing some testing here at YDR on some location-based social media maps. We started working with GatheringPoint mapping in mid July with this page for our Dallastown readers. It shows all the social media communication going on in … Continue reading

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Behind the scenes of NORAD’s aircraft escorts

We saw it as you posted it Friday evening. Pictures of fighter jets over the Hanover area. We read your posts about the booming sounds, and the low-flying planes. And those tiny Cessnas that appeared to be escorted on by. … Continue reading

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Artistic vision evolves for Mobile Media Lab design team

Our artists have been collaborating and brainstorming and refining their concepts for the Mobile Media Lab. We are getting close — close enough that it really is important for you to chime in with critiques and coaching points. We’ve never … Continue reading

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#YDR2012: Read the tweets from high schoolers attending Thursday’s journalism workshop

  View the story “#YDR2012: A York Daily Record high school journalism workshop” on Storify [<a href="http://storify.com/laurenboyer/ydr2012-a-york-daily-record-high-school-journalis" target="_blank">View the story "#YDR2012: A York Daily Record high school journalism workshop" on Storify</a>]

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Teen Takeover a treasure at YDR

One night a month, I really love my job. Don’t get me wrong, I like what I do just about every day of the week (not many people can say their employer encourages them to check Facebook and Twitter often). … Continue reading

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YDR sports editor showed resolve, reserve among swirl of Paterno rumors

The York Daily Record/Sunday News’ front page today is shown, leading in to coverage of Joe Paterno’s death.  Sports Editor Chris Otto led the coverage crossing many platforms – social media, mobile, print – and at the same time told … Continue reading

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Newsroom culture of excellence, foundational document No. 10: Understanding digits in the digital world

This graphs shows growth of our Facebook audience from four counties – York, Adams, Franklin and Lebanon – and beyond. Many journalists will tell you that math wasn’t their best subject. In fact, some will say they got into journalism … Continue reading

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