Congratulations to all Award Winners!

The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention, June 7-8, at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown Hotel.

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. James O. Goodwin, publisher at The Oklahoma Eagle, received the prestigious Milt Phillips Award from the OPA Board of Directors. Bruce Willingam, publisher of McCurtain Gazette, 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 Norman Transcript and Tahlequah Daily Press. Sequoyah winners in the weekly divisions were El Reno Tribune, Midwest City Beacon, Choctaw Times, The Purcell Register, The Keystone Gusher and Minco-Union City News. The Cameron University Collegian was the winner in the college division.

View all the winners in the
2023 Better Newspaper Contest

Other awards presented:

• Half Century Club inductees: John Ferguson of Wagoner County American-Tribune, Joe Hight at the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, Susie Glasscock at Stillwater News Press and Jeff Mullin of Enid News & Eagle.
• Quarter Century Club inductees: Mark Carson at Woods County Enterprise, Jeff Schnoebelen of The Mooreland Leader, Steve Coulter at Mustang Times and Matt Swearengin of Durant Democrat.
• ONG Editorial Sweepstakes Award to Kim Poindexter, Tahlequah Daily Press
• ONG Column Sweepstakes Award to Jennifer Palmer, The Journal Record
• OGE Daily, Semi- or Tri-Weekly Photo of the Year to Richard R. Barron, The Ada News
• OGE Weekly Photo of the Year to Kyle Lomenick, The Perkins Journal
• ONF Joseph H. Edwards Outdoor Writer of the Year Award to Connor Choate, Marietta Monitor
• ONF Ray Lokey Memorial Award for Excellence in Reporting to Clifton Adcock, The Frontier
• Magazine Contest First Place to Stillwater News Press