Scott Fisher

About

Scott Fisher started his journalism career editing a group of weekly newspapers in the Wilmington, Delaware area, then came to York, Pennsylvania as a news editor. He quickly became editorial page editor for The York Dispatch – and then moved to the York Daily Record in the same position. In that capacity, he won about a bazillion journalism awards and is among the most decorated journalists working in York County today. He then returned to his roots in news, supervising many reporters in the YDR newsroom and standing up the USA Today Network’s Pennsylvania state capitol bureau. In that capacity, he successfully led statewide coverage of the hotly contested 2020 Pennsylvania presidential election with its myriad of lawsuits and false claims of voter fraud. He also managed operations at the Chambersburg Public Opinion for about a year. There he was the primary editor of a meticulously reported Chambersburg investigative project that exposed a Jerry Sandusky-like figure: A pillar of the community and longtime Scoutmaster who abused at least 10 boys but who couldn’t be charged because of the statute of limitations. He was lead editor on the massive regional USA Today Network project “Killing the Chesapeake,” which won a Keystone award for best enterprise reporting. In his “spare” time, he serves as community engagement editor for YDR, producing lively public events such as sessions looking back at York’s race riots 50 years ago; an annual local history event; and sold-out York Storytellers Project events (YDR was among the smallest Gannett properties operating this popular live storytelling venture). Most recently, he took on the role of Central Pennsylvania News Director for the York Daily Record, the Evening Sun of Hanover and the Lebanon Daily News, working with journalists in these small newsrooms to do impactful work. He is a leader among Pennsylvania editors, hosting a weekly statewide editors’ meeting and fostering regional content sharing and cooperative projects.