Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Gaylord News is a reporting project of the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication

Gaylord News

Alex Cameron, Washington D.C. correspondent of News 9, interviews Gaylord News reporter Libbey Dean in the Cannon Rotunda. (Gaylord News/ Vy Luong)

News 9 Washington DC correspondent Alex Cameron highlights Gaylord News program

Libbey Dean July 16, 2021

  WASHINGTON -- For years, OU’s Gaylord School of Journalism has been helping turn students into working journalists. More recently, the school has given a select few students the opportunity...

Windows at Tasty Thai in Del City were shattered in May. The restaurant was the target of burglary and vandalism four times during April and May. (Provided/Lyn Detphong)

Despite anti-hate crime bill, Oklahoma’s Asian American community faces difficulties

Vy Luong July 9, 2021

Lyn Detphong, a single mother balancing her job as a full-time nurse with ownership of a Thai restaurant, thought the worst of her struggles were ending earlier this year as the COVID-19 pandemic began...

Members of the First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City attended the opening of the Century Chest on April 22, 2013, after 100 years of it being buried in the church’s basement. Courtesy/Oklahoma Historical Society

Century Chest still offering clues to life at turn of 20th century

Keegan Williams July 7, 2021

Huddled around a copper vault in the basement of the First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City, family, friends, church members and historians waited anxiously to find out what had been tucked inside 100...

President Joe Biden speaks as he commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, at the Greenwood Cultural Center, Tuesday, June 1, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Biden vows to repair Greenwood in Tulsa but stops short of saying reparations

Deon Osborne, Associate Editor, The Black Wall Street Times June 2, 2021

As descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre filled the seats behind a podium prepared for President Biden inside Tulsa’s Greenwood Cultural Center on Tuesday, the air was filled with excitement, but most...

Cherokee Ballard has been the communications manager for Oklahoma Natural Gas since 2011. Her career spans a variety of experiences as a journalist, Cherokee Nation leader, nonprofit advocate and cancer survivor. (Photo provided)

Native advocate talks “new normal” after loss, pandemic

KaraLee Langford and Brooklyn Wayland April 28, 2021

NORMAN — The communications manager for Oklahoma Natural Gas said she is still adjusting to a “new normal” after both her husband’s death and the COVID-19 pandemic altered her life dramatically. “It’s...

Stephanie Bice reflects on tumultuous first 100 days

Stephanie Bice reflects on tumultuous first 100 days

Bennett Brinkman April 23, 2021

WASHINGTON - When Oklahoma’s newest representative launched her campaign for the Fifth Congressional District seat, she expected the typical challenges that go with moving from the state political theater...

OU Police Chief Nate Tarver talks about his years in law enforcement with Gaylord News reporters KaraLee Langford and Brooklyn Wayland. Tarver was promoted to the university police chief in September 2020. Miranda Vondale Foster/Gaylord News

University of Oklahoma police chief discusses diversity training

KaraLee Langford and Brooklyn Wayland April 21, 2021

NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma Police Department Chief Nate Tarver openly addressed the racial tension between law enforcement and people of color during a Gaylord News podcast. “We have to...

Gaylord News launched the new podcast series Oklahomans of DC, which will highlight Oklahomans living and working in the U.S. capital. The series is hosted by Gaylord News reporter Bennett Brinkman. PHOTO: Bennett Brinkman/Gaylord News

Journalist expelled from Yemen discusses her travels on podcast

Bennett Brinkman, Reporter April 8, 2021

WASHINGTON — An Associated Press reporter talked on a Gaylord News podcast about her experience being expelled from Yemen because of her journalism. Gaylord News released the third episode on Thursday...

Journalists gathered for a Gaylord News-hosted panel to discuss state history and navigating the past years public health crisis. Panel participants included (left to right) M. Scott Carter, Storme Jones and Mike Boettcher. (Miranda Vondale Foster/Gaylord News)

Panel on protests, pandemic for journalism podcast concludes

KaraLee Langford and Brooklyn Wayland April 1, 2021

NORMAN, Oklahoma — For the second installment of a special panel episode of the Gaylord News podcast “Survive & Thrive,” three Oklahoma journalists discussed what lessons can be learned from...

Like other Indigenous storytellers on RezTok, Yang often shares stories and personal histories that don’t show up in textbooks. (Photo by Jeff Rosenfield/Cronkite News)

RezTok: Indigenous storytellers find stronger voice on popular platform

Joseph Perez, Cronkite News April 1, 2021

PHOENIX – Native people across Turtle Island – an Indigenous name for North America – logged onto the video-sharing app for different reasons, but they stayed for the community, for the culture and...

The Cheyenne and Arapaho Language Department staff: Left to right, back row: Carol Whiteskunk, Jazmine Johnson, Michael Elizondo, Brendan Haag and James Sleeper; Left to right, front row: Regina Youngbear, Rebecca Risenhoover, Shaynna Walker and Michelle Johnston.

Tribal nations ramp up, reflect on language preservation efforts after American Rescue Plan allocation

Nancy Marie Spears, Reporter March 30, 2021

Justin Neely, director of language for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, grew up among elders who told him that if the Potawatomi language is lost, so are the Potawatomi people. Now, the tribal elders...

A Choctaw language lesson. Photo by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma tribes making plans to use American Rescue Plan funds in Native language programs

Nancy Marie Spears, Reporter March 30, 2021

Tribal leaders across Oklahoma say they are looking forward to seeing how American Rescue Plan funds for language preservation are distributed. “We could use the money, whether it be making more programming...

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