Oklahoma Media Center

05/11/2024

Click here to learn more about Oklahoma elections.

05/11/2024

It's Election Day in Oklahoma and nationwide! Today is the last day to cast your vote in the Presidential election and all other offices up for election.

05/11/2024

𝙀𝙇𝙀𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙄𝙉 𝙊𝙆𝙇𝘼𝙃𝙊𝙈𝘼: Watch the team you can trust all night long, and check out our election special breaking down every campaign in Norman on YouTube at our link in bio.

📸: Willie Gillespie/OU Nightly

05/11/2024

05/11/2024

Election Day has arrived in Oklahoma. Here is some information about state and local races, as well as what you'll need if you plan on casting your ballot.

05/11/2024

Happy Election Day, Oklahoma! Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. across the state. If you are voting via mail-in ballot, your ballot must be received by your county election board by 7 p.m. today.

You can find your assigned polling location on the OK Voter Portal. Free transit services via Embark and MetroLink Tulsa are available to help you get to your polling place.

In Oklahoma, employers must allow their employees who are registered to vote two hours to go to the polls if applicable. For more information about how the law applies, visit the Oklahoma State Election Board website.

04/11/2024

OPINION: The local citizen reading a newspaper paper for free certainly wouldn’t want people ripping off his business. But people don’t understand why they have to pay for news. And many don’t trust the media, particularly the national kind. Unfortunately, inaccurate reports and bias have eroded trust.
How did we get here? Read this commentary written by Oklahoma Media Center's executive director published by Oklahoma Voice.

So even if you refuse to pay for news, it is not free. It takes money to produce documented, verified news that is fair-minded and ethical.

28/10/2024

The Free Press isn't Free! Support Local Media.

23/10/2024

Good morning, folks! BIG REMINDER that all nominations for the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame 2025 Class is due by October 31, 2024. If you need a refresher on who has already been inducted, check out our website!

17/10/2024

Congrats to these four Oklahoma newsrooms for receiving grants: The Black Wall Street Times, The Frontier, NonDoc and Tri City Collective! The funding helps close coverage gaps to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news.

Two hundred and five small local news outlets - including one in every U.S. state - will receive a share of $20 million to close persistent coverage gaps in their communities, thanks to funding from Press Forward.

14/10/2024

14/10/2024

🎥 Got a minute? Watch and share the nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center's “Free Press Isn’t Free,” a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-inspired animated video designed to bolster trust and support for local newsrooms.
(Warning: You’ll be humming Okie guitarist Mike Hosty's song and remembering Mechanism Digital’s animation after viewing!)
🗞️ OMC’s Board of Directors Treasurer Angel Cantrell-Ellis suggested creating a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-influenced video. Here’s background on how the nonprofit OMC’s local news literacy campaign, funded by Kirkpatrick Foundation, provides education on journalism’s role in facilitating an informed citizenry and explains the value of local news.
https://oklahomamediacenter.com/.../oklahoma-media.../
🎯 OMC’s targeted local news literacy campaign will provide newsrooms stipends to publish and broadcast the video on their websites and help newsrooms execute paid social media campaigns to reach local audiences in specific geographic areas.
📣 We’re asking local newsrooms to end with a call to action with a trustworthy individual urging citizens to donate, subscribe or advertise to support their local news organizations. And we’re looking for partners to broaden our educational outreach and raise more awareness.
Support OMC collaborators here:
https://oklahomamediacenter.com/the-free-press-isnt-free/
Cherokee Phoenix, Curbside Chronicle, Enid News & Eagle, Ga***rd News, KFOR-TV, KGOU - Your NPR Source, KOSU Radio, KOTV - News On 6, KWTV - NEWS 9, The Lawton Constitution, Mvskoke Media, The Norman Transcript, NonDoc, O'Colly, OETA, Oklahoma City Free Press, Oklahoma Voice, Oklahoma Watch, Osage News, OU Daily, StateImpact Oklahoma, Stillwater News Press, Streetlight, Telemundo Oklahoma, The Black Wall Street Times, The Frontier, The Oklahoma Eagle, The Oklahoman, Tulsa World, Verified News

07/10/2024

Our collaborative's local news literacy campaign is highlighted in this new essay by William McKenzie, senior editorial advisor of the George W. Bush Institute at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. "The one-minute animated presentation, which is modeled after the 'Schoolhouse Rock!' series of short films, emphasizes how holding leaders accountable, reporting on government agencies and verifying facts secure our liberties," McKenzie wrote of the "Free Press Isn't Free" song by Hosty animated by Mechanism Digital. The nonpartisan Bush Institute is a policy organization that develops leaders, advances policy and takes action to solve today’s most pressing challenges.

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27/09/2024

Enid News & Eagle is hiring a full-time news reporter. For more information, visit the link below.
https://okpress.com/networking/apply_now.aspx?view=2&id=832759

To view jobs posted by Oklahoma news organizations, visit: https://okpress.com/networking/opening_search.asp

28/08/2024

Thanks to America's Newspapers for this article on our "Free Press Isn't Free" video! It includes a song by Hosty and"Schoolhouse Rock!"-influenced animation by Mechanism Digital and was supported by a Kirkpatrick Foundation grant. That OKC-based foundation previously funded scientific polling by Pat McFerron and academic research by Rosemary Avance and Allyson Shortle for our Ecosystem Engagement Project partnership with Trusting News, which coached a recent cohort of a dozen newsrooms executing data-driven projects to enhance trust. That multiphase project’s research ultimately inspired messaging for Hosty's lyrics. Support our collaborators here: https://oklahomamediacenter.com/the-free-press-isnt-free/

The nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center has released a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-inspired animated video with a song designed to bolster trust and support for local newsrooms.

22/08/2024

🎥 Got a minute? Watch and share the nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center's “Free Press Isn’t Free,” a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-inspired animated video designed to bolster trust and support for local newsrooms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cERtOB9JD9Q&t=63s
(Warning: You’ll be humming Okie guitarist Mike Hosty's song and remembering Mechanism Digital’s animation after viewing!)
🗞️ OMC’s Board of Directors Treasurer Angel Cantrell-Ellis suggested creating a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-influenced video. Here’s background on how the nonprofit OMC’s local news literacy campaign, funded by Kirkpatrick Foundation, provides education on journalism’s role in facilitating an informed citizenry and explains the value of local news.
https://oklahomamediacenter.com/2024/08/oklahoma-media-center-launches-free-press-isnt-free-local-news-literacy-campaign/
🎯 For next steps, OMC’s targeted local news literacy campaign will provide newsrooms stipends to publish and broadcast the video on their websites and help newsrooms execute paid social media campaigns to reach local audiences in specific geographic areas.
📣 We’re asking local newsrooms to end with a call to action with a trustworthy individual urging citizens to donate, subscribe or advertise to support their local news organizations. And we’re looking for partners to broaden our educational outreach and raise more awareness.
Support OMC collaborators here:
https://oklahomamediacenter.com/the-free-press-isnt-free/
Broken Arrow Sentinel, Cherokee Phoenix, CNHI, Curbside Chronicle, Ga***rd News, Indigenous Journalists Association, Investigate Midwest, KFOR-TV, KGOU - Your NPR Source, KOSU Radio, KOTV - News On 6, KWTV - NEWS 9, The Lawton Constitution, Mvskoke Media, NonDoc, The O'Colly, OETA, Oklahoma City Free Press, Oklahoma Voice, Oklahoma Watch, Osage News, OU Daily, StateImpact Oklahoma, Streetlight, Telemundo Oklahoma, The Black Wall Street Times, The Frontier, The Oklahoma Eagle, The Oklahoman, Tulsa World, Verified News

02/07/2024

We’ve forgotten historical perspective. In the American Revolution, the founders realized the free press is a pillar of our representative democracy that must remain independent of government rule.
Now the nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center is looking for partners as we embark on a local news literacy campaign.

24/05/2024

How can you increase trust in local news and help sustain the embattled journalism industry? We're sharing key findings from a dozen newsrooms executing data-driven projects designed to do just that. Read what they learned with links to their final project reports included here. Enid News & Eagle, The Frontier, KGOU - Your NPR Source, Oklahoma Watch, KOSU Radio, The Lawton Constitution, NonDoc, Oklahoma Press Association, The Oklahoma Eagle, The Oklahoman, OU Daily and Verified News

A dozen different newsrooms across Oklahoma are completing data-driven projects designed to enhance trust in and the sustainability of local journalism as part of the nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center’s Ecosystem Engagement Project.  The statewide collaborative’s multiphase project consisted of c...