Most recent IDC Luncheon hosted Frank Scandale, Editor of Bergen Record, on Wednesday February 3, 2010. He made a wonderful presentation in great atmosphere, which was followed by great discussion.
Frank Scandale has been in the field for about 30 years. He says the Bergen Record is unbiased, fiar and balanced and it captures the local and regional news, He said "We make a diference." He talked about how they share the news with The Star Leger, example of the two gets the news and shares it with the other, they each put their own perspective on the reported news. The Bergen Record writes their news by giving detail and explanation about the story, people already know what happened, they want to know how it happened. The Bergen Record has people in Haiti reporting news and also checking to see how people from New Jersey are trying to help out with the Earthquake.
Frank Scandale
Frank Scandale has been editor of The Record since January 2001. Under his guidance, the paper has earned The New Jersey Press Association’s General Excellence Award for best newspaper in the state, 6 of the last 8 years. He lead The Record’s award-winning coverage of the September 11 attacks, which included the photo by Thomas Franklin of firemen raising the flag in front of the World Trade Center rubble.
Scandale came to The Record from The Denver Post, where he served as assistant managing editor for news. There Scandale led coverage of such national stories as the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the JonBenet Ramsey case and the Columbine school shootings, for which the staff received a 2000 Pulitzer Prize.
The Record appointment marked Scandale’s return to New Jersey papers. He was previously the city editor for the now defunct Daily Journal in Elizabeth, NJ and also held editorial positions at Reuters News Service and Travel Trade Publications. He is a 1979 graduate of Glassboro State College.
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