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BOYER INVESTIGATES: How do you pronounce “Utz?”

Posted on May 14, 2013 | Leave a comment
This photo, taken by coworker Jess Sprenkle, shows me offering chips to Bryan Tate, republican candidate for state representative.

This photo, taken by coworker Jess Sprenkle, shows me offering chips to Bryan Tate, republican candidate for state representative.

If the camera adds 10 pounds, I probably gained 15 Friday.

That’s the day Sonya and I wandered around York city eating chips and feeding them to strangers for this video.

Why?

The former Toyota Arena at the York Expo Center has a new sponsor: Utz Quality Foods.

It’s going to be called the Utz Arena, effective June 1 — which some people think is a good thing. Continue reading →

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Posted in Digital First, Feature, Funny, Journalism, Social Media, Twitter, Video, York Daily Record

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My weekend is better than your weekend: A Tout story

Posted on May 7, 2013 | 1 Comment

ydrtoutersIn 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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Finally, Lauren learns how to shoot video that doesn’t get cut off in Brightcove!

Posted on August 18, 2012 | 2 Comments

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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Posted in Apps, Digital First, ideaLab, iPad, iPhone, Journalism, Meet-ups, Mobile Reporting, Reporting, Video, York Daily Record

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#Weldinglikeajournalist: York County Technical School teacher Joshua Seitzer shows me how it’s done

Posted on June 13, 2012 | 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, I spent some time at York County School of Technology for a story about welding that’s going to print this Sunday.

I hung out in the shop and YDR photographer Jason Plotkin made this video of me trying my hand at the trade and wearing oh-so-chic safety garb.

It really captures my personality, I think.

As an added bonus, the beginning showcases that awesome intro I wrote about last week.

Welding: It’s not as easy as it looks.

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Journalistic branding: A personal intro to my York Daily Record videos

Posted on June 8, 2012 | 2 Comments

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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In politics, there are “winners and losers” and YDR videos that take REALLY long to make

Posted on June 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

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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Boyer Investigates: A search for swag at the York County Business Expo

Posted on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

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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The Legend of Gravity Hill: A tale of two videos

Posted on April 28, 2012 | 1 Comment

From time to time, I keep tabs on this old video of me, a 20-year-old intern at the Patriot-News in Harrisburg.

It was filmed in the summer of 2008 by photographer Michael Fernandez.

It was my father who told me about the infamous hill in Lewisberry, a town in the northern part of York County near Harrisburg where the coverage areas of the York Daily Record and Patriot-News technically overlap. Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a Central Market meet-up: Getting outside the office, generating page views

Posted on April 14, 2012 | 4 Comments

This story begins with my shameless self promotion a few days before the meet-up, both online and in the paper. It’s common sense:

If you want people to see you, you have to let them know where you are.

Here’s the “promo” that ran on ydr.com and in the York Daily Record/Sunday News early last week.

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