by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
the Hall of Famers who fearlessly worked to expose wrongdoing By Mary Hargrove, 2018 Inductee I was 24 years old when the Tulsa Tribune hired me in the fall of 1974. I insisted I wanted to be an investigative reporter. President Richard Nixon had resigned six months...
by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
a Hall of Fame photojournalist—and mentor By John Greiner, 1993 Inductee Oliver Murray, the first African-American photojournalist in Oklahoma City, was much more than a television news photographer. Murray, who who worked for Oklahoma City’s WKY, now known as...
by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
the snow/ice storm and the will to attend an induction ceremony By Joe Hight, 2013 Inductee Snow and ice were predicted in Colorado on April 17th, 2013. I told my wife, Nan, that we had to make it to my Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame induction by the next morning. ...
by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
the friendly, genuine, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist By Joe Hight, 2013 Inductee My mind wandered when Anthony Shadid’s name was read for induction into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2012. All I could think about is what he said to me the...
by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
my (four) million miles By Bob Dotson, 2019 Inductee I’ve been in more motel rooms than the Gideon Bible, crisscrossing this country, practically nonstop, for half a century, searching for people who are practically invisible, the ones who change our lives, but...
by mschuff | Nov 17, 2020 | Stories
time to celebrate, appreciate, and reflect on the Eagle By David Goodwin In 2003, I was named editor of The Middletown Journal in Ohio. It was an occasion to celebrate, to appreciate, and to reflect. Celebrate: I was a rarity in daily newspaper leadership. I was one...
