The Oklahoman
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 The Dec. 21, 2007, front page of The Oklahoman |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Oklahoma Publishing Company |
| Publisher | David Thompson |
| Editor | Ed Kelley |
| Founded | 1889 |
| Headquarters | 9000 North Broadway Ext, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73114  United States |
| Circulation | 216,441 Daily 282,119 Sunday[1] |
| Official website | NewsOK.com |
The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only daily newspaper that covers the entire Oklahoma City area. The Gaylord family owns the newspaper, which helped build a multi-billion dollar fortune.
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[edit] History
Founded in 1889 in Oklahoma City by Sam Small, The Daily Oklahoman was taken over in 1903 by The Oklahoma Publishing Company (OPUBCO), controlled by Edward K. Gaylord, also known as E.K. Gaylord. E.K. Gaylord died at the age of 101, having controlled the newspaper for the previous 71 years. Management of the newspaper passed to his son, Edward L. Gaylord, who managed the newspaper from 1974 to 2003. Christy Gaylord Everest, daughter of Edward L. Gaylord and granddaughter of E.K. Gaylord, is chairman and chief executive for the Oklahoma Publishing Company, which publishes The Oklahoman. Gaylord Everest is assisted by her sister Louise Gaylord Bennett. The newspaper has faced criticism. A 1998 American Journalism Review survey acknowledged The Oklahoman's positive contributions as a corporate citizen of Oklahoma, but characterized the paper as suffering from understaffing, uninspired content, and political bias.[2] In 1999, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article calling The Oklahoman the "Worst Newspaper in America"; the CJR cited the paper's conformance to the right-wing political views of the Gaylord family, alleged racist hiring practices, and high costs of ads.[3][4]
Until Feb. 29, 1984, OPUBCO published an afternoon daily newspaper, the Oklahoma City Times. It was folded into the Daily Oklahoman beginning with the March 1, 1984, issue. The Oklahoman was formerly available for delivery statewide, but in November 2008 it announced that it was reducing its circulation area to cover approximately two-thirds of the state, and that it would no longer be available for delivery in Tulsa, Oklahoma's second-largest city. The change reduced the paper's circulation by about 7,000 homes.[5] [6] In January 2009, the Oklahoman and the Tulsa World announced a content-sharing agreement in which each paper would carry some content created by the other; the papers also said they would "focus on reducing some areas of duplication, such as sending reporters from both The Oklahoman and the World to cover routine news events."[7]
[edit] Awards
Charles George Werner, a rookie political cartoonist at the newspaper, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for editorial art. The winning cartoon, Nomination for 1938, depicted the Nobel Peace Prize resting on a grave marked Grave of Czecho-Slovakia, 1919-1938. Published on Oct. 6, 1938, the cartoon bit at the recently concluded Munich Agreement, which transferred the Sudetenland (a strategically important part of Czechoslovakia) to Nazi Germany.
[edit] Editorial Staff
- Ed Kelley, Editor
- Kelly Dyer Fry, Vice President of News & Information
- Mike Shannon, Managing Editor (News)
- Joe Hight, Director of Information & Development
- Robby Trammell, News Director
- Doug Hoke, Director of Photography
- Yvette Walker, Director of Presentation
- Dave Morris, Director of Video
- Don Shockey, Night Editor
- Clytie Bunyan, Business Editor
- Michael Baker, City Editor
- J.E. McReynolds, Chief Editorial Writer
- Sonya Colberg, Features Editor
- Steve Byerly, News Editor
- Linda Lynn, News Research Editor
- Mike Sherman, Sports Editor
- Dave Cathey, State Editor
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ "2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation" (PDF). BurrellesLuce. 2007-03-31. http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf. Retrieved 2007-05-29.
- ^ James V. Risser, "State of the American Newspaper: Endangered Species", American Journalism Review, June 1998.
- ^ Selcraig, Bruce (1999). "The Worst Newspaper in America". Columbia Journalism Review. http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/99/1/worst.asp. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ Farah, Joseph (1999). "The worst journalism review in America". WorldNewDaily. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=14666. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ "The Oklahoman newspaper ends Tulsa delivery," Tulsa World, November 6, 2008.
- ^ Oklahoman redraws boundaries,The Oklahoman, November 6, 2008.
- ^ Joe Strupp, "Tulsa World, Oklahoman to Share Content," Editor & Publisher, January 23, 2009.
