The guys from the new event, White Rose Thunder, invited the media out Thursday for a flat track racing demonstration at the York Fairgrounds.
I’ve written about the event before, at least twice, so I figured I’d do a video with a QR code for print, since I figured motorcycles whizzing around a dry dirt track has to show up great on camera. Continue reading
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This is the closed food court, caution tape and all. My editor, Cathy Hirko, noticed I’m getting a little artsy fartsy with my iPhone photos.
The other day, I posted about Gathering Point, this neat tool you can use to make social maps that update in realtime to complement stories.
On Tuesday, I had the perfect opportunity to see it in action: A cockroach infestation that closed the food court at the York Galleria mall.
On a side note, that day, I pretty much almost crashed my car on Rt. 30.
En route to the mall, I had my notepad pinned against the steering wheel while I took notes from Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Samantha Krepps. Continue reading
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Sometimes, I feel like my job title should include “finder-of-weird-shit.”
There was this, when I reported remotely from the mall.
Oh, and this, which has remained our No. 1 most visited blog post on York Common Cents for the past two months. Continue reading
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I’ve been doing lots of lighthearted videos lately, like this one about the ‘search for swag’ — freebies at the county’s business expo.
Many of them come out of things I see while out and about for my ideaLab mobile reporting project.
Photographer Jason Plotkin had recently made a video intro for another reporter and offered to do the same for me. Continue reading
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A few months ago, Sunday Editor Scott Blanchard had this idea to make me the York Daily Record‘s Jeanne Moos, starring in news video spoofs like this one, for example.
At first, I didn’t know who she was.
(I don’t really watch TV. True story.) Continue reading
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This blog post should also be called, “Why I will never be a TV reporter.”
The other day, my editor instructed me to report from the York County Economic Alliance Business Expo. Continue reading
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