Jon Harris

Reporter at @TheBuffaloNews interested in health care, other topics. President of @BuffaloGuild. @dailyorange alum. @Broncos fan. | [email protected]

[The Buffalo News @TheBuffaloNews]

Buffalo General Medical Center will add Scott Bieler's name, following a "transformational gift."

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Update on this situation in the Town of Alden. Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corps has agreed to continue providing paramedic EMS coverage until Dec. 1

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Situation worth monitoring in the Town of Alden, where residents could see a gap in ambulance coverage this fall before a new provider takes over Jan. 1. But, officials say, a solution is being worked on https://t.co/KIWmUvZG0Q

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Situation worth monitoring in the Town of Alden, where residents could see a gap in ambulance coverage this fall before a new provider takes over Jan. 1. But, officials say, a solution is being worked on https://t.co/KIWmUvZG0Q

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Rather than have a live animal in there (which is very likely a bad idea), what if they used it as a drunk tank for certain Bills fans instead?

[Bussin' With The Boys @BussinWTB]

The Bill potentially having a live bison for home games 👀

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

The New York State Health Department has launched a dashboard to track measles, now that the state has had a total of 57 cases this year (there were 48 cases in NYS in 2025). Dashboard shows 6 measles cases in Allegany, 1 in Chautauqua and 2 in Erie so far https://t.co/PgfphFeX5W

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

The Oishei name is coming down to make way for Golisano at Buffalo’s children’s hospital

[Poynter @Poynter]

Months after billionaire David Hoffmann came to Lee Enterprises bearing a message of renewed investment in the chain, the company began laying off editors and copy editors at papers across the country.

While the scale of the recent layoffs appears to be much smaller than past rounds of mass cuts, they still raise questions:
https://t.co/mJBV58EfMt

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

And we're adding to our Buffalo Bills coverage https://t.co/2fa5pAtsBc

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

.@TheBuffaloNews is looking to hire a philanthropy and culturals reporter. This is a @BuffaloGuild position, and the third of three open reporting positions at The News https://t.co/vIfecESIWe

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

We're also hiring a high school sports reporter https://t.co/nMDeHYHpf0

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

The second open reporting position at @TheBuffaloNews has now been posted: High School Sports Reporter https://t.co/nMDeHYHpf0

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

.@TheBuffaloNews will soon be hiring for three reporting positions, all of which will be part of the @BuffaloGuild. The first position is for a Buffalo Bills beat reporter, which will give us four reporters covering the team when the season kicks off https://t.co/2fa5pAtsBc

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

If anyone has questions or is interested, feel free to reach out on here or at [email protected]

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

.@TheBuffaloNews will soon be hiring for three reporting positions, all of which will be part of the @BuffaloGuild. The first position is for a Buffalo Bills beat reporter, which will give us four reporters covering the team when the season kicks off https://t.co/2fa5pAtsBc

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

The other two jobs are not quite posted publicly yet, but we will also be looking for a high school sports reporter, to team up with reporter Clevis Murray. The other open reporting job will be on the news/business side. I will share the links to these two jobs when they post.

[Seth Wickersham @SethWickersham]

In January, I spent the playoffs embedded with Sean Payton and the Broncos. Sixteen-hour days, capturing every meeting, decision, and the raw and unfiltered creativity, energy, desperation, rage, joy, and loneliness of trying to win in The Second Season.
https://t.co/GveoCgXb7P

[Buffalo Newspaper Guild @BuffaloGuild]

Tens of thousands of @TheBuffaloNews subscribers read the paper online, but thousands also still receive the news in print, delivered to their door. Unfortunately, that print delivery system could be in jeopardy if changes aren't made by @LeeEntNews soon. Our full statement:

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Here is the project area in Broadway-Fillmore that will be focused on

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

I’ll update this story after the 11:30 a.m. event at King Urban Life Center. This project aims to do people-centered neighborhood development rather than profit-centered, like so

[The Buffalo News @TheBuffaloNews]

The project focuses on part of the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, bounded by Broadway to the south, Fillmore Avenue to the east, Genesee Street on the west and Best Street to the north. https://t.co/L8EL2wn9mF

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

Congrats to @BuffaloGuild members @rachelmlenzi, @ByMHarrington, @hsjrphoto and @chessabond on your wins in the New York News Publishers Association's 2025 Awards for Excellence. (Congrats also to our ad colleagues at The Buffalo News who won)
https://t.co/ch5FEtZTbe

[Jon Harris @ByJonHarris]

No major updates on this today. Erie County Health Department said its epidemiology team is continuing outreach/education today to the highest-risk contacts that were identified through our contact tracing, and helping them determine their vaccine status if needed.

[The Buffalo News @TheBuffaloNews]

For the first time in eight years, there is a confirmed positive measles infection in an Erie County resident.

https://t.co/cMOj7NrJ1c