by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 OLIVER C. MURRAY (1941- ) joined the newsroom at WKY-TV (Now KFOR) in 1968 after serving in the Army, becoming the first African-American photojournalist in Oklahoma City. He held many positions including chief news photographer and...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 JAMES COBURN (1955- ) has served as reporter and photographer for The Edmond Sun since 1986. A native of Oklahoma City, flexibility is Coburn’s middle name, going from a passion as photographer to feature writer and then the city beat and state...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 JOE HANCOCK (1929-2014), publisher of the Hobart Democrat-Chief, began working in newspapers at age nine, five years before his father bought the Democrat-Chief. He worked as a fill-in Linotype operator during summers for papers at Anadarko, Mangum,...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 JOE HIGHT (1958- ) became editor of The Colorado Springs Gazette in 2012 after a 27-year career with The Oklahoman. Hight began his career on The Vista at Central State University. He worked at the Guthrie Daily Leader, the Lawton Constitution and the...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 JOHN KLEIN (1953- ), senior sports columnist since 2005 for The Tulsa World, began his career in high school as a sports writer for the Perry Daily Journal, crediting Milo Watson with encouraging his career. After graduation from OSU, he was sports...
by Buddy Broncho | Jun 10, 2019 | 2013
Inducted: 2013 JERRY LAIZURE (1953-2012), senior photographer at the Norman Transcript, worked for Oklahoma newspapers since age 14 when he fibbed about his age at the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise to start as a paperboy. He worked at Pawhuska before studying...
