OKLAHOMA CITY – The Osage News won four Oklahoma Press Association awards in the 2014 Better Newspaper Contest, including first place awards for news writing and community leadership.
The newspaper’s two other OPA awards include:
- Second place for feature writing.
- Second place for in-depth enterprise reporting.
For the community leadership award, Osage News Editor Shannon Shaw Duty submitted story coverage of the newspaper’s 2014 election debates held for the ON Principal Chief, Assistant Principal Chief and Congressional races. This was the third election year the newspaper organized the candidate debates for the primary and general elections. Those debates were open to the public and live streamed via Internet. This is also the second consecutive year the Osage News has won this award in its respective division.
The newspaper also submitted story coverage of the Nation’s first-ever removal trial of an elected official. In January 2014, former Principal Chief John Red Eagle was impeached following his removal trial with the Third ON Congress serving as the tribunal body. In the end, the Congress voted either unanimously or by super-majority to sustain five of those allegations after a week of witness testimony.
The Osage News participated in the annual newspaper contest with publications of all sizes from across Oklahoma. The newspaper staff picked up the awards during the annual OPA awards banquet held June 5 in Oklahoma City.
This is the fourth year the newspaper competed in the OPA Better Newspaper Contest. All contest entrants submitted stories and published content from the 2014 calendar year.
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Osage News
Original Publish Date: 2015-07-20 00:00:00
