Honorees

Inducted: 2022 TED STREULI (1961- ) is the executive director at Oklahoma Watch. He was the editor of The Journal Record (2004-2017) and worked previously for Southern Newspapers and Westward Communications in Texas, and Lesher Communications in California. He has...

Inducted: 2022 PAT RILEY REEDER (1936- ), former executive editor at the Claremore Daily Progress, started as a reporter in 1968. For the past 17 years, she has served as Public Relations Director at Will Rogers Memorial museums. Reeder earned an Associate Degree from...

Inducted: 2022 BRYAN PAINTER (1964- ) His newspaper career spanned 32 years with the Enid News & Eagle (1982-87), Amarillo Globe-News (1987-91), and The Oklahoman (1991-2015). The Oklahoma State University alumnus covered the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah...

Inducted: 2022 STEVE LACKMEYER (1966- ) started at The Oklahoman in 1990. A graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, he has won numerous awards for his coverage, including the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, the city’s Metropolitan Area...

Inducted: 2022 ELLEN KNICKMEYER (1963- ), a Washington correspondent and foreign correspondent for nearly two decades, sought to show the human lives impacted by American foreign policy, from the Middle East and Africa to Europe. The daughter of outstanding Oklahoma...

Inducted: 2022 SAM JONES (1943- ) is a broadcast product of Arkansas where he served as anchor for KATV-TV in Little Rock and later as prime anchor/reporters Monday-Friday at KTHV-TV. There, he learned to shine a light in dark corners. Later, he became prime...

Inducted: 2022 RICHARD DOWDELL (1950- ) spent most of his career at KRMG Tulsa. Besides reporting for 37 years starting in 1975, he reported from Guatemala, Israel, Normandy, and national political conventions. Graduating from Tulsa University in 1972, he held jobs at...

Inducted: 2022 J. SCOTT CHERRY (1946- ) spent 50 years in the newspaper business following a stint with the Army in South Korea. The first 20 years were covering college sports at the Tulsa World and as assistant sports editor at the Tulsa Tribune. He started the...

Inducted: 2022 SUSAN CADOT (1966- ) spent much of her career in Oklahoma City as a documentary producer, and as Vice President of Production at OETA. After she graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1988, her first job was at KOCO-TV 5. Two years later,...

Inducted: 2022 BARBARA ALLEN (1975- ) is an educator, editor and writer whose proudest achievements are the students she mentored. She began her career as a student at the O'Colly at Oklahoma State University where she graduated before founding the Tulsa World's teen...