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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Gannett |
| Editor | Randy Parker |
| Founded | 1796 |
| Headquarters | York, Pennsylvania |
| Circulation | 37,323 daily; 61,665 on Sundays |
| Sister newspapers | The York Dispatch |
| Website | ydr |
TheYork Daily Record is a newspaper and news publisher servingYork, Pennsylvania, United States, and the surrounding region. Its news publications are theYork Daily Record andYork Sunday News. At the end of 2014, the newspaper's circulation was 37,323 daily and 61,665 on Sundays.[1][needs update]
The newspaper, printed in abroadsheet format, is published seven days a week. It also publishes "FlipSide," a nightlife and entertainment guide that is distributed every Thursday.The York Daily Record/Sunday News is available online in an e-Edition, with Saturday editions exclusively in that format since March 2022.[2] The media organization runs the YDR.com[3] website and also has smartphone and tablet apps.[4]
Some of its keycoverage areas include Watchdog,[5] Food,[6] College Football and high school sports coverage of the YAIAA[7] league. The media organization also operates a community blog portal.[8]
TheDaily Record andThe York Dispatch have worked under ajoint operating agreement since 1990. The newspapers are to return to more independent operations after the agreement expires in June 2024.[9]
Gannett announced June 1, 2015, that it had acquired theDaily Record.[10]
In 1796, Solomon Meyer createdDie York Gazette, a weekly, German-language newspaper, whichThe York Daily Record credits as its earliest incarnation.[11]
After several years without publication ofDie York Gazette, William C. Harris created the English-languageGazette in 1815. Between 1821 and 1891,The Gazette also published a weekly German edition.
The Gazette was taken over by David Small in 1836. Small, who also served as York postmaster, county director of the poor and York's chiefburgess, remained owner of the paper for nearly 50 years.
Prominent businessman Adam Geesey convertedThe Gazette into a daily publication in 1887.The Gazette became the third York-area newspaper to publish daily.
In 1915, Allen C. Wiest and law partnerJ.W. Gitt acquired the founderingGazette, which began Gitt's 55-year reign asGazette owner. Under Gitt, the newspaper gained a national reputation for its independent—some considered it leftist—news orientation and editorial positions.
The Gazette purchasedThe Daily, York's first daily newspaper, and theYork Legal Record in 1915. In 1918,The Gazette was renamedThe Gazette and Daily.
After nearly 150 years of continuous publication, the paper shut down in 1970 because of labor problems. Gitt sold the paper's assets to a local group headed by attorney Harold N. Fitzkee Jr. and retiredThe Gazette and Daily name. The paper soon reopened under aYork Daily Record nameplate.
In 1973,The Daily Record was sold to Jimmy D. Scoggins, a veteran newspaperman, who changed the paper's format fromtabloid to its current broadsheet form.The Gazette and Daily had become a tab in 1943 because of newsprint shortages during World War II.[12]
Buckner News Alliance purchased the newspaper from Scoggins in 1978 and modernized the paper's appearance and operations.
MediaNews Group, owner ofThe York Dispatch, purchased theYork Sunday News in 1988. The next year,The Daily Record andThe York Dispatch sought government approval for aJoint Operating Agreement (JOA), a partial merger because "The Daily Record" was facing financial troubles. The U.S. Justice Department approved the JOA in 1990, creating the York Newspaper Co. to manage merged production, circulation and advertising departments.The Daily Record andDispatch newsrooms were not part of the merger and to this day remain under separate ownership.
In 2004, Buckner News Alliance sold theYork Daily Record to MediaNews Group, which also owned theYork Sunday News the news organization operated as theYork Daily Record/Sunday News.
In September 2011,MediaNews Group, parent company of theDaily Record, announced it had appointed John Paton as CEO, and entered into an agreement with Digital First Media. Paton heads Digital First Media which provides management services to MediaNews Group andJournal Register Company publications.[13]
On June 1, 2015,Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher by total daily circulation, said it had acquired theDaily Record along with several other newspapers fromDigital First Media.[10]
The following are some of the awards and recognitions received by the newsroom of theYork Daily Record/Sunday News and its affiliated digital products in the past 20 years:[14]
GameTimePA[20] was a brand of high school sports coverage in southcentral Pennsylvania, includingAdams,Franklin,Fulton,Lebanon andYork counties.
The brand at one point expanded into thePhiladelphia-area, including parts ofBucks,Chester,Delaware andMontgomery counties.
GameTimePA spanned more than 60 schools and 22 sanctioned sports in thePIAA. GameTimePA offers live coverage of high school events, including livestreams offootball and other sports, live updates and scoring/game updates on GameTimePA'sTwitter andFacebook accounts.
Editorial coverage was provided by the York Daily Record/Sunday News, Hanover Evening Sun,Lebanon Daily News andChambersburg Public Opinion.
The York Daily Record's parent company, Digital First Media, in 2012 awarded the newsroom a grant to build the NewsVroom—a mobile, community media lab.[21] The new-media classroom on wheels was equipped withsmartphones,tablets,laptops andWi-Fi. The vehicle and YDR journalists have been to breaking news scenes, political events, high school football games, theYork Fair, theYork County Libraries and more to interact face-to-face with readers and glean information to better serve York and its surrounding areas.
The purpose of the NewsVroom was to boost the public's understanding of how the news organization and readers can use new technology to share and consume news and information.
The NewsVroom and the York Daily Record/Sunday News staff were recognized by Digital First Media as the company's best community engagement project of 2012.[22]
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