Journalism Jargon: Columns, editorials and articles
Editor’s note: YDR Insider tries to help you, our readers, understand some of the terms you would hear if you were sitting in our newsroom on a regular basis. Anyone who works for in a newsroom can...
View ArticleAn experiment launched this week
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....
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Newsroom culture of excellence, foundational document No. 5: Breaking news in...
Click image to see complete flowchart When deadline is ever-present and technology advances at a lightning pace and the needs of your audience shift from story to story and day to day, it is hard to...
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Newsroom culture of excellence, foundational document No. 6: How we grow our...
Click image to see complete chart Traditionally, newspapers measured their success in circulation – the number of papers sold each day. That’s how most of us referred to newspapers around the country....
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Newsroom culture of excellence, foundational document No. 8: Changing the...
Click to see full graphic. It’s time to change and expand the roles of one of the most traditional areas of the newsroom — the copy desk. These are the folks who, traditionally, put the finishing...
View ArticleYork reader’s paywall perspective sparks subscription debate
A terrific dialogue has ensued in a recent post I made here at the YDR Insider. It’s exactly the type of conversation we were looking for when we launched this blog site. I shared an email exchange I...
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Copy editor takes piece of York Daily Record with her
After 41 years at the York Daily Record, Gloria Fogal retires on Friday. You can read about her career in another post, but I’d like to share a glimpse into an important part of this newsroom that she...
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Insider’s look at the 2012 GameTimePA high school football tab
This huge chart helps Assistant Sports Editor Lyzz Jones keep track of what has and has not been completed for GameTimePA’s 2012 high school football special section, which will be published on Aug....
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A reader’s guide to headlinese
Here’s a look at the front page of Friday’s Daily Record. Believe it or not, it took some mild discussions to come up with the seemingly basic headline at the right, “145 seek info.” Welcome to the...
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How does the York Daily Record decide how to refer to a transgender person?
Readers have been asking why the York Daily Record refers to a transgender student at Red Lion Area Senior High School as “he,” and by the name Issak Oliver Wolfe, rather than as “she” and the name...
View ArticleReaders write the cutline — or is it a caption?
We’d like readers’ help in coming up with fun captions — or cutlines, as we call them in the newsroom — for some of our photos. Here’s today’s challenge: Post by York Daily Record/Sunday News.
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