Congratulations to all Award Winners!

The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention, June 9-10, at The Grand Casino Hotel & Resort in Shawnee, OK.

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. Susan Ellerbach, former executive editor at Tulsa World, received the prestigious Milt Phillips Award from the OPA Board of Directors. John Small, managing editor of Johnston County Sentinel, was awarded the Beachy Musselman Award by the ONF Board of Trustees. 

In the daily and online-only divisions, winners of this year's Sequoyah Awards in the OPA Better Newspaper Contest were The Lawton Constitution and McAlester News-Capital. Sequoyah winners in the weekly divisions were El Reno Tribune, Mustang Times, The Piedmont-Surrey Gazette, McIntosh County Democrat, The Lincoln County News and Yale News. Northwestern News was the winner in the college division.

View all the winners in the
2022 Better Newspaper Contest 

Other awards presented:

• Half Century Club inductees: Brenda Adams of Sequoyah County Times and Joyce Carney at The Country Connection News
• Quarter Century Club inductees: Jeff Mayo at Sequoyah County Times and J.D. Meisner of Cushing Citizen
• ONG Editorial Sweepstakes Award to David Stringer, The Lawton Constitution
• ONG Column Sweepstakes Award to Sheila Gay, Woodward News
• OGE Daily, Semi- or Tri-Weekly Photo of the Year to Kyle Phillips, The Norman Transcript
• OGE Weekly Photo of the Year to LaDonna Rhodes, McIntosh County Democrat
• 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 Gary Lee, The Oklahoma Eagle
• Magazine Contest First Place to Stillwater News Press