In an effort to help everyone in the newsroom understand the storytelling potential of Tout, there was a newsroom wide “Tout Your Weekend” contest that ended today.
What is Tout?
It’s a video-sharing platform that allows you to capture 15-second status updates that post through Twitter and Facebook.
It also allows you to pause the video and switch frames, so you don’t have to use an editor. Continue reading
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So, it’s 10 p.m., and I really wish I was watching Chicago Fire.
However, I got addicted to New Hive instead. Continue reading
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Tagged bae systems, bradley, coding, dfm, digital first, embed, free, graphics, idealab, interactive, journalism, new hive, reporting, shutdown, website, ydr, york county, York Daily Record
We got a note from the students over at Central York High School that just made my day Friday.
As you recall, wle did a NewsVroom presentation for two journalism classes a couple weeks ago.
Anywho, you can read it for yourselves.
A lot of them seemed SUPER enthused about getting out of the cubicle.
Click to enlarge:
Co-journalist-in-crime Brittany Wilson and I pose for a picture with the class in front of a ScribbleLive of @TheNewsVroom tweets we used to illustrate live blogging during the fake presser.
Things got a little wild Thursday (as they often do when the York Daily Record allows me to be involved in anything).
The plan: Drive the NewsVroom to Central York High School and teach two journalism classes about the joys of journalizing and using social media.
This included a fake press conference with a fake press release featuring yours truly, the ‘Mayor of Shiloh,’ denying allegations that she embezzled city funds to build a half-size replica of Hershey Park in her backyard.
You can read that jawn here. Continue reading
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Tagged central york high school, digital first, fake press conference, journalism, lauren boyer, live blogging, mayor boyer, scribblelive, shiloh, students, teaching, the newsvroom, the prowler, Twitter, York Daily Record
I detest typical “Year in Review” posts:
I rang in 2012 wearing these ridiculous glasses with my little sister, who came to York for the occasion.
“I GOT ENGAGED.”
“I HAD A BABY.”
“I BOUGHT A HOUSE.”
Yep, I’ve done none of said things. I’m still living in my awesome bachelorette pad apartment in York city. I don’t have a ring on it. And there certainly isn’t a fetus growing inside of me (that I’m aware of).
But hey, I still had a pretty awesome year full of adventures, successes and things that made me think.
Here’s a list of the good, the bad and the ugly from 2012: Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, adventures, digital first, fun, idealab, journalist, lauren boyer, reporter, year in review
The benches outside Edmond Town Hall became memorials to Sandy Hook victims. Together, they spell a quote by William Edmond: “History has a secondary utility, which by relieving our minds from the fatigue, more serious occupation invigorates and prepares us for fresh exertion.”
He never showed up.
That, for some reason, is where it became real to me.
Somewhere between the piles of flowers, makeshift memorials, and barrage of funerals at St. Rose of Lima church, it hit me hard in a Sandy Hook hair salon on my last day of reporting from the Connecticut town.
Marci Benitez, a hair dresser at Fun Kuts, planned to cut 6-year-old James Mattioli’s hair on Saturday.
The appointment came and went. Benitez thought the young boy’s mother had forgotten, until she saw his name on a list released Saturday. Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Digital First, Journalism, Sandy Hook, Writing, York Daily Record
Tagged collaboration, digital first, elementary, humanity, journalism, new haven, newtown, reporters, reporting, sandy hook, school shooting, thunderdome
I had a newsroom buddy today. Meet Haley Staub, 16, of Spring Grove aka @tarhelgrl50 on Twitter.
Well, today was tons of fun. (So was Friday, and the pie party, but I’ll get to that in another post.)
A Spring Grove Area High School junior from our Teen Takeover staff hung out with me all day for part of her graduation project.
She decided to shadow me after attending my #boyer101 session earlier this year. My presentation, apparently, hadn’t scared her off.
Here’s how the day went down: Continue reading
Because I’m ridiculous …
And because I overestimate the interest in my random adventures …
And because I want practice liveblogging, so I’m not like “Um, how the heck do I use this?” when I have to do it for breaking news …
I’m liveblogging the rural ‘pie party’ extravaganza I’m going to around 7 p.m. Click here on our York Common Cents blog for updates, if you care.
Feel free to chime in with a comment and annoy me. Continue reading
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Here I am as a senior, co-editor of Hershey High School’s newspaper, The Broadcaster. Those were the days, people!
Confession: I didn’t even go to high school football games when I was IN high school.
I didn’t care.
I was that newspaper nerd with a helicopter mom who wasn’t allowed to be out past dark.
I also had like … two friends (who also, by the way, weren’t allowed to be out past dark). I lived life on the edge. Continue reading
A large chicken takes a tumble.
So, this is a first.
I was working this Saturday, and all hell broke loose with the weather.
I was driving back to the office from lunch when a monsoon erupted.
I called my editor and asked if I should get a photo of something going on to post with a web update.
The rain. People hating the rain. Whatever.
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Tagged chicken, deflated, digital first, facebook, idealab, iPhone, journalism, lauren boyer, mobile, online, photo, picture, rain, reporting, royal farms, weather, ydr.com, York Daily Record
