Social media, slowing things down
You know, there’s nothing like social media to grab a fistful of your shirt, pick you up on tiptoes, and give you a good stern smack in the face. Maybe that’s why we like it so much. There’s no doubt...
View ArticleSantorum, and fast
I’ll go ahead and admit it here: I’ve been pretty excited this week about Rick Santorum. That’s not necessarily a political endorsement, though. Rather, it’s a brief and admittedly unsolicited cheer...
View ArticleNew media, and new dads
I still have the operating room scrubs, folded and tucked away in the back of the closet. They’re green with a white drawstring on the pants, washed and dried and most days anymore I don’t give them a...
View ArticleKClinging to the memories
Talk about peer pressure. I got back from vacation last week just in time to sit down in front of the computer and pull up Facebook and read the chatter and see that the favorite Hanover hangout of...
View ArticleThe Evening Sun wins awards… shhh.
Don’t tell the boss I’m writing this. After all, the default policy around here is generally to go about our business, chasing the news in York and Adams counties and trying to keep up with it all....
View ArticleGoing digital in the drizzle
Hopefully, you didn’t even notice I was gone. Honestly, I didn’t really want to leave — it was cold and dark and the rain had just picked up outside — but there was no reporter here and not much to be...
View ArticleYou ought to be in pictures
Brett Berwager. It’s been said before. It’s been led before, actually, (in a sports column about a newsroom football pool). But the name of our staff photographer came into clear focus right in front...
View Article‘Dealing not only in events’
I remember not long after I came to The Evening Sun I wrote what I thought was a funny little Facebook post about Marc Charisse. It gently mocked some advice offered by my new boss. The note was sent...
View ArticleThe stories we know
I never thought much about the stories when I was younger. I guess they were always around, when I was growing up. So were the storytellers, for that matter. But back then I never paid them as much...
View ArticleHanover, I thank you
I’ll share with you what the editor once told me, right after I tell you a little about the best job I ever had. The job was in Hanover and there wasn’t much fanfare and sometimes you found yourself...
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