Inducted: 2018 RAY LOKEY (1953-2017) was a third-generation newspaper publisher who followed his grandfather, E.R. Lokey, and father, John Lokey at the Johnston County Capital-Democrat in Tishomingo. He began as a newspaper boy on his 11th birthday. After being editor of the high school newspaper Indian Tales, he entered the University of Oklahoma as a […]
Inducted: 2018 MARY HARGROVE (1950- ) began her career at the Newark Advocate in Ohio, where she was sued for her unpublished notes and sources after investigating a badly built subdivision. Her case set the precedent for upholding the Ohio Shield Law. In 1974 she joined The Tulsa Tribune. In 1982, her coverage revealed a […]
Inducted: 2018 KIM POINDEXTER (1960- ) began her career at the weekly Cherokee County Chronicle during college. After graduation, she went to work for the Tahlequah Daily Press. Though she’s been an editor most of her career, her loves are editorial writing and investigative reporting. Poindexter has more than 40 first-place editorial and column writing […]
Inducted: 2018 JON DENTON (1940- ), a fourth-generation member of a printing, publishing and newspaper family, joined The Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times in 1967. In his 40-year career, he covered a multitude of stories: the advent of the computer age, bass fishing in Mexico, interviewing actress Carol Channing in her limo, dodging angry […]
Inducted: 2018 GEORGE TOMEK (1939- ) began his career in 1960 at KOTV, Tulsa, as a reporter/anchor. He joined WKY-TV in 1966 in Oklahoma City as a photographer/reporter/anchor. From 1969-1971, he was anchor/reporter at both KMOX-TV in St. Louis and KDFW-TV, Dallas. He returned to Oklahoma City in 1972 as an anchor/reporter at KTVY/KFOR; he […]
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award DR. JOE FOOTE (1949- ) was Dean of the Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma from 2004 to 2015 and is now Dean Emeritus. He was Director of the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State, a journalism dean at Southern Illinois University, and taught at Cornell. He worked as a […]
Inducted: 2018 DOUGLAS HOKE (1956- ) began his award-winning career at Northwest Classen High School when he won the 1975 Oklahoma Interscholastic Press Association Photographer of the Year. He attended Central State University (University of Central Oklahoma) where he worked for the yearbook, The Vista and campus photographic services. In his third semester in 1976, […]
Inducted: 2018 CHRIS LEE (1955- ) began his journalism career in high school in Buffalo, Missouri, at radio station KBFL from 1971-1973 while also writing articles for the local weekly newspaper. He worked at the University of Missouri NBC affiliate KOMU-TV from 1975-1977 and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Missouri School of […]
Inducted: 2018 BERRY TRAMEL (1961- ) joined The Daily Oklahoman in 1991 and has served as beat writer, assistant sports editor, sports editor and columnist. He began at the Norman Transcript in 1978, where his first assignment was the Lexington-Elmore City high school football game. He is a six-time winner of Oklahoma’s Sportswriter of the […]
Inducted: 2018 BARBARA HOBEROCK (1966- ) is the Tulsa World’s Capitol Bureau chief, the longest-serving Oklahoma statehouse reporter and dean of the Capitol Press Corps. Hoberock covers the state Legislature, governor, state agencies, appellate courts and elections. She began her professional career at the Claremore Daily Progress as a general assignment reporter before joining the […]