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Meet Haley, my high school journalism job shadow from Spring Grove Area High...
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...
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Boyer prepares to weather the storm: A list of pro tips for journalists...
After I performed the list of tasks below, I wrote this blog while consuming a Grey Goose and orange juice. Gotta load up on Vitamin C before the storm, kids! Hurricane Sandy is on her way. As a...
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Exploring York County dive bars and a column on the ‘pie party’
Another day on the job. Remember that time I ate pie and made new friends in a rural neighborhood? That column finally made it in the paper. I used Dickey’s fruit pie recipe as a breakout. Hyperlocal...
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A week of Johnson Controls: Reporting on the York employer’s possible relocation
Future home of Johnson Controls? We’ll just wait and see. Last week got pretty wild. For months, we knew a Fortune 500 company was looking to relocate within York County to Hopewell Township using a...
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Of parrots and pancake breakfasts: My Saturday working night cops
This is me and fellow business reporter Stephanie Reighart being awesome. I spent Saturday morning hanging out with my coworkers, the NewsVroom and a man dressed as Santa Claus at the Boy Scout Troop...
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Four days in Newtown: Reporting on the Sandy Hook school shooting
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...
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Teaching digital journalism: I pose as Mayor Boyer of Shiloh for a lesson in...
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...
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A month of music: A lack thereof and a LIVE concert
The stage of the Strand all decked out for Think Loud’s after party on Feb. 28. Later in the night, the curtains opened and Live played with a backdrop of empty seats. The past couple weeks, for me,...
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First try at New Hive: A graphic on BAE Systems and the proposed shutdown of...
So, it’s 10 p.m., and I really wish I was watching Chicago Fire. However, I got addicted to New Hive instead. I was inspired to use it after checking out fellow DFM ideaLabber Aimee Heckel’s blog....
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Stoop barbecues and other non-journalism related things that happened in May
You know it’s the best month ever when you get to eat a hot dog that looks like this. This month has been the greatest. Excuse the hand shadow. Two Fridays ago, I went to the Pennsylvania Associated...
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Today, I visited an air duct factory.
In this screenshot, Ken Brown, president of MKT Metal Manufacturing, is contemplating his love of ducts. To watch the video, click here. Today, I visited a duct factory. No, not the tape. MKT Metal...
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Brickflow: Playing Tetris with tweets!
I was getting kind of bored with Storify. So, on Friday, I experimented with Brickflow. This is what my “story” looked like when it was finished. Click here to watch the finished slideshow. It’s...
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What’s happened in Boyer World the last month or so?
This is one of those I-haven’t-blogged-in-a-couple-months posts. But, unlike the rest of you all, I have some legitimate excuses. So, let’s just cut to the chase, shall we? This is where I’ve been and...
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