Congratulations to all Award Winners!

The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention, June 10-11, 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. Kelly Dyer Fry, former publisher and editor of The Oklahoman, received the prestigious Milt Phillips Award from the OPA Board of Directors. Kim Poindexter, editor of Tahlequah Daily Press, 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 Norman Transcript and McAlester News-Capital.Sequoyah winners in the weekly divisions were The Duncan Banner, Midwest City Beacon, Choctaw Times, The Purcell Register, Lincoln County News, and The Fairfax Chief. The Cameron University Collegian was the winner in the college division.

View all the winners in the
2021 Better Newspaper Contest

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

Other awards presented:

• Half Century Club inductees: Joey Goodman, former sports editor of The Lawton Constitution, and James F. Fienup, former publisher of the Spiro Graphic, who died in 2021.
• Quarter Century Club inductees: Todd Brooks, Sheila Gay, Mark Millsap, Elizabeth Ridenour, Joshua Small and Melissa Small
• ONG Editorial Sweepstakes Award to Kim Poindexter, Tahlequah Daily Press
• ONG Column Sweepstakes Award to Cindy Allen, Enid News & Eagle
• OGE Daily, semi- or Tri-Weekly Photo of the Year to Glen Miller, El Reno Tribune
• OGE Weekly Photo of the Year to Kathleen Guill, Frederick Press Leader
• ONF Joseph H. Edwards Outdoor Writer of the Year Award to Ed Godfrey, The Oklahoman
• ONF Ray Lokey Memorial Award for Excellence in Reporting to Ashlynd Huffman, Stillwater News Press 
• Magazine Contest: First place to Cushing Citizen