This marks the Daily’s eighth consecutive year to earn a Gold or Silver Crown and its seventh time in that span to earn the top Gold distinction.
This marks the Daily’s eighth consecutive year as a finalist, its longest streak in organization history, per available records.
“Our project will help OU Daily become an even more prominent local news organization in the city and better tell the stories of both OU and the city of Norman,” editor-in-chief Karoline Leonard says of her staff’s projects being chosen alongside professional organizations for the Oklahoma Media Center’s Ecosystem Engagement Fund.
In addition to winning what's commonly known as the Pulitzer Prize of collegiate journalism, the University of Oklahoma's independent student news organization earned three other national awards at the fall college media convention in Atlanta.
Terry Chanda Chishimba earned two advertising awards announced at the annual College Media Business and Advertising Managers conference in early October.
OU Daily and its staffers are recognized in competition against the state's professionals for its website, magazine, profile reporting, sports reporting, spot news reporting and sports photography.
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OU Daily earned two Pinnacle Awards finalist honors bestowed on the nation’s best college media organizations in results announced Thursday by the College Media Association.
No other school had more than one student place in the contest.
He was selected for the honor by Dr. Ed Trayes from among 12 interns who completed his legendary editor boot camp at Temple University.
Maddy Keyes, who worked through the past year at OU Daily, and Marien López Medina, who previously did so, along with Gaylord's Kevin Palomino, were chosen for the distinguished investigative reporting fellowship.
