Congratulations to all Award Winners!

The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention, June 11-12, at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City.

Also announced during the two-day convention were the recipients of the OPA H. Milt Phillips Award and the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation’s Beachy Musselman Award. Jeff Funk, retired publisher of the Enid News & Eagle, received the prestigious Milt Phillips Award from the OPA Board of Directors. Mark Codner, publisher of The Newcastle Pacer, was awarded the the Beachy Musselman Award by the ONF Board of Trustees.

In the daily divisions, winners of this year’s Sequoyah Awards in the OPA Better Newspaper Contest were The Lawton Constitution, Stillwater News Press and Tahlequah Daily Press. Sequoyah winners in the weekly divisions were The Purcell Register, The Cleveland American, Owasso Reporter, Eastern Times-Register in Roland and El Reno Tribune. The Cameron University Collegian was the winner in the college division.

View all the winners in the 2020 Better Newspaper Contest.

Convention and award winners' photos will be published soon on OPA's Facebook and in the June issue of The Oklahoma Publisher.

Other awards presented:

• Half Century Club inductee: John M. Wylie II
• Quarter Century Club inductees: Ronnie Clay, Rob Collins, Patrick Ford, Kristi Dawn Hayes, Jessica Danker Mitchell, Scott Rains
• ONG Editorial Sweepstakes Award to David Stringer, The Lawton Constitution
• ONG Column Sweepstakes Award to Jennifer Pitts, Countywide & Sun in Tecumseh
• OGE Daily Photo of the Year to Scott Rains, The Lawton Constitution
• OGE Weekly Photo of the Year to Haley Humphrey, Yukon Review
• ONF Joseph H. Edwards Outdoor Writer of the Year Award to Kelly Bostian, Tulsa World
• ONF Ray Lokey Memorial Award for Excellence in Reporting to Ashlynd Huffman, Stillwater News Press 
• Magazine Contest: First place, The Lawton Constitution; second place, Muskogee Phoenix; third place, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise