Borys Krawczeniuk | WVIA News

Borys Krawczeniuk, one of the most experienced reporters covering Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania, joined WVIA News in February 2024 after almost 36 years at the Scranton Times-Tribune and 40 years overall as a reporter.

Borys brings to WVIA’s young news operation decades of firsthand knowledge about how government and politics work, as well as the finer points of reporting and writing that embody journalism when it’s done right.

In his decades of reporting and writing about the region, he has chronicled everything from tragic house fires and car accidents to local and state elections to presidential candidate visits. He does this with a calm reporting approach that can turn aggressive, especially when he thinks a public official isn’t as forthcoming as the public has a right to expect.

A proud graduate of Elmer L. Meyers High School, King’s College and Syracuse University, Borys’ journalism career began with almost three years as a reporter for The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre. He covered former U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski’s first victorious congressional campaign, then Luzerne County’s Pittston area and Back Mountain.

After that, he moved on to The New-Age Examiner in Tunkhannock for a year before joining The Scranton Times in May 1988. For five years, he covered Lackawanna County’s downvalley before earning a promotion to general assignment reporter. For most of the next five years, he was the newspaper's nighttime police reporter, which he credits with really teaching him the ins and outs of reporting and writing.

He covered politics full-time for the newspaper for almost 25 years and took over its foundational and popular politics column, Random Notes by Roderick Random, while also covering Lackawanna County and Scranton government and serving as an investigative reporter and jack-of-all-trades.

Borys’ work has been recognized with awards from organizations such as the Inland Press Association, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association.

He accepts awards with gratitude, but avoids getting caught up in admiring his efforts because he knows a reporter’s work never ends.

To him, the only thing that matters is allowing his readers, listeners and viewers to gain a sense of what’s true because that’s what living in a democracy requires.

You can email Borys at boryskrawczeniuk@wvia.org