The Digital Desk

If you haven’t had a chance to see what our sports department has started doing recently, check it out. We are giving you a voice — literally. We’ve always wanted you to comment. We’ve always encouraged your participation in the news process. But now, we’re experimenting with...

After some correspondence with a reader of The Oklahoman’s new iPad edition, he offered this feedback. I thought I would share with the world. I do like the app.  The structure is organized and easy to use.  I think I’ll like having the media links close at hand as I use it...

I wrote at length late last week about our inclusion in the iPad App Store. I talked about how proud we were that daily editions of The Oklahoman were now available on the iPad. In that piece, I talked about our mission to reach news consumers in any way they want to be reached. And it truly...

My boss was at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association conference in Austin, Texas, last week. She was presenting to the group of newspaper executives, explaining how we organized ourselves over the past few years in building two fully functional video studios and trained our journalists...

I came across the most recent article in our “Inspiring Couples” series last week. It was a piece about Jim and Robin Riley of Edmond. Jim is a former University of Oklahoma and NFL football player who had lived a hard life during and after his playing career. But, the morning of July...

We started giving money away this month. It began on Oct. 10. It will end on Dec. 4. Each week in between, NewsOK.com is giving away $500 to a newly registered NewsOK.com members. This is our way to encourage news consumers who haven’t yet registered with our site to do just that. We...

I won the pool. Last week, a group of developers, designers and project managers were adding levity to their work, taking friendly wagers on how quickly The Oklahoman’s iPad application would be approved by Apple and available to the public via the app store. The team had just finished a...

We’ve made some changes to the NewsOK navigation in the past couple weeks. The most visible change was to our main navigation that is on every NewsOK.com page. We replaced the page we previously referred to as “VOICES” with a new page names “BLOGS.” This change is an attempt to...

The phone rang today. It was a subscriber to The Oklahoman. The fact that he was using the phone to contact me is a good indication that he prefers our print product. Most feedback I get about NewsOK.com comes in the form of email. But this man was quick to point out that he was a...

So I was browsing NewsOK.com the other day. I tend to do that as part of my job description. On the day in question, the NewsOK editors were featuring some restaurant profiles from wimgo near the top of the NewsOK home page. You’ve probably seen them below our top stories along the left side...

I’m a big fan of this video. Well done.

Sad news came to us this morning. I found out in an e-mail from The Oklahoman’s Editor, Ed Kelley. Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Marian Opala had died. Ed was making sure reporters and editors in our News and Information Center were aware of the developing story. The news spread fast....

I received this question from my blog this week: I realize you hear this all the time, but what happened to Crime Tracker or Crime Watch?  The last question posted on newsok.com referencing Crime Tracker was from December 2008, so I wanted to check to see if it was still active?  It...

What the heck is that big building in Norman that looks like an airplane hangar. It’s north of Robinson off of Flood, so it’s near the airport in Norman, but it’s not actually on the airport grounds. So what is it? Only our Places series can tell you. (OK, so it was built as a...

Today seems like a good day to post a video. We do so much video here at NewsOK that it’s sometimes easy to forget how difficult it was to transform our newspaper operation into a full-scale multimedia company. It’s sometimes easy to forget how difficult it was for hundreds of journalists...

The Dusty Globe is something worth checking out. It’s a blog written by an interesting young woman from New York named Katya Kruglak. We first started hosting Katya’s blog last year as she spent months abroad in various locations like India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and New Zealand. I highly...

I ran across Carrie Coppernoll’s blog post today. (I found it via my Facebook feed, since I follow her content stream from my Facebook profile). Her post provided excellent insight into the world of a news columnist. She was talking about the response she has gotten fron readers of her...

The Oklahoman Archives is a product we’ve had for a long time. It serves our customers that see a great value in more than 100 years of history stored nicely away in a searchable vault. You can sign up for one day ($8.95), one month ($33.00), three months ($78.00), six months ($140.00) or...

There are just a few more weekdays and a full weekend remaining for the 2010 State Fair. And about a week and a half ago, I wrote about how our State Fair StoryWall was going to make a triumphant return. And it absolutely has. The StoryWall is the primary way we are telling the story about...

Dave Cathey has a tough job on Saturdays this fall. His job on Saturdays is to tailgate. Yes, that’s tailgate … as a verb. But here’s what makes it even better for Dave (a.k.a. – The Food Dude): He doesn’t have to set up a tailgate location; he doesn’t have to put stakes in...