NewsOK.com honored twice this week

We’ve had two stories this week that can only be described as shameless plugs for what we work hard at trying to do here at OPUBCO Communications Group.

On Monday, we got word that we had won a national awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for our ‘know it’ series and our Your Right to Know page, which has since evolved into a larger Watchdog page.

To quote our story:

The Sigma Delta Chi Awards honor outstanding journalism from across the country. The Oklahoman’s staff was recognized for “Public Service in Online Journalism” for its “know it” and “Your Right to Know” projects.

That was good news. The national SPJ awards are generally considered second only to the Pulitzer in terms of journalistic prestige. It’s also good news, because we were honored for the type of quality journalism and public service that we push ourselves toward every day.

We love weird news, crime news, sports news and breaking news — we do that very well on NewsOK and always see a big spike in traffic when those types of stories take center stage.