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College football preview available for last-minute preparate for 2012 season August 30, 2012 | Comment on this article

It’s finally time for the first week of the college football season. And, as usual, that means our annual football preview is released. It was released Sunday in the newspaper and made its appearance at the top of the NewsOK home page on Monday. And my favorite part was this piece of unsolicited feedback from a... Read More

Domestic violence series leads to live video discussion on for our first Google hangout

August 29, 2012 We executed our first Google hangout on Monday. Reporters Juliana Keeping and Jaclyn Cosgrove hosted the live video hangout and interacted with five guests from around the state. This was the result: $(document).ready(function() {brightcove.createExperiences();}); The hangout was the culmination of... Read More

NewsOK upgrades mobile application

August 28, 2012 A free upgrade to the NewsOK app is now available in the iTunes store. The new and improved NewsOK app displays an enhanced news presentation that is consistent with the design of the NewsOK Mobile website. After Sept. 15, 2012, the current app will no longer contain news headlines. Please update the app to see... Read More

NewsOK Mobile and the kind words from @jcamenisch August 16, 2012 Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a really big fan of the NewsOK Mobile website. I wrote about it in April, shortly after we launched the revamped site. So when I came across the Twitter conversation reporter Steve Lackmeyer had with a reader, I thought it would be good to share. Jonathan Camenisch... Read More

NewsOK’s latest nDepth piece reminds us of Jim Thorpe’s greatness

August 08, 2012 I love our nDepth series on NewsOK. Here’s why … That’s just the top of the page. And yes, that’s a video player right in the middle of Jim Thorpe’s chest. Who doesn’t want to scroll down and read the rest of story after seeing such a striking presentation at the top? Taylor Eldridge takes the... Read More

Project covers the school consolidation issue

August 07, 2012 The Oklahoman‘s summer intern program is consistently excellent, but the 2012 class was one to remember. They proved it with the final project, which has been on display on NewsOK.com since last Sunday. It’s called ‘Restructuring Schools,’ and it’s a special coverage page with a dozen stories and a... Read More

Enjoying the Wall Street Journal video of the badminton match-throwing controversy

August 02, 2012 I haven’t seen a lot of this year’s Summer Olympics. It’s just been a busy week. Maybe next week I’ll watch a lot of the track and field events — and I’ll definitely make the Team U.S.A. basketball games appointment DVR’ing next week. But I was really intrigued by the Badminton scandal that I heard... Read More

Reporters chatting live with readers on NewsOK August 01, 2012 Our reporters have been connecting with our readers using live chats quite a bit lately. So I’ll take this oportunity to highlight some of the excellent content that has resulted from this effort: Reporters Paul Monies and Bryan Dean joined Oklahoma State University professor Joey Senat for a chat about open... Read More

Super 30 page give readers a quick view of the best in the state for 2012

August 01, 2012 It’s August. To me, that means it’s officially OK to start openly discussing the upcoming football season. And now that I’m ready, it’s pretty cool that The Oklahoman sports department has been keeping up with the football season all summer. The OU and OSU blogs have been active — really active —... Read More

An explanation of The Oklahoman’s ‘Full Access First’ stories on NewsOK

July 31, 2012 If you’ve visited NewsOK on a Sunday in the past month or so, you’ve probably seen a list of headlines that looks something like this: That’s actually exactly what we had displayed in the middle column near the top of NewsOK.com on Sunday. It featured five stories from Sunday’s Oklahoman — five stories... Read More

nDepth piece on drive-in theaters draws reader interest on NewsOK

July 26, 2012 On Sunday, we released another installment of our nDepth – Stories of the Ages series. It was written by Taylor Eldridge, one of The Oklahoman’s interns this summer, and he told the story like a veteran. He took readers back to their memories of hanging out at one of the many drive-in theaters in the... Read More

Don’t miss this NewsOK video about hunting hogs

July 24, 2012 My favorite NewsOK video comes from this weekend’s content. The story? … Feral hogs provide formidable prey for Oklahoma hunters The story was good. It really educated me on the problem the hogs create: Feral hogs have become a problem for landowners because they tear up land and eat food intended for... Read More

Education on Kitty Wells begins with NewsOK headline

July 17, 2012 I learned something yesterday because of a simple headline on NewsOK.com. 1st female country superstar Kitty Wells dies My first thought was … Who’s Kitty Wells? My second thought was … For someone who knows a lot about country music and grew up in a house with a long bookcase of vinyl records from... Read More

Olympics coverage launches on NewsOK and NewsOK Mobile July 10, 2012 We added another navigation item under the Sports section on the NewsOK Mobile site. It’s the page we set up to help cover the Olympics, which begins on July 27. The new page in the mobile navigation is easy to see, too, because we included a red “NEW” icon next to the new page (see the screen capture to... Read More

Photo Stream goes mobile on NewsOK

July 06, 2012 A couple of months ago, we launched the Photo Stream page on NewsOK. We received a lot of good feedback for that page and our intent to display images from our photo database in a stream-of-consciousness mode. From my blog in April: The Photo Stream is a fun and alternative way to browse the content on... Read More

OU beat reporter Jason Kersey breaking down the best and worst games in Bob Stoops’ career

July 02, 2012 Check out the new page we launched in our OU coverage area on NewsOK recently. It’s the Best and Worst of the Bob Stoops Era. Reporter Jason Kersey has spent this summer going through the list and breaking down the 15 best games and 15 worst games since 1999, when Bob Stoops took over the OU football program.... Read More

A nice word for Darnell from Spain June 29, 2012 I was about to close down a week here at OPUBCO when I decided to scroll through Darnell Mayberry’s live chat from earlier today. He started the chat at 11 a.m., answering question after question about the Oklahoma City Thunder’s draft choice and plans to sign the core unit of the team. More than an hour... Read More

Spring 2012 issue of Hot Ink available on NewsOK

June 04, 2012 Each year, journalists in our newsroom volunteer their time to work with aspiring high school journalists and teach them the basics of the craft. It’s called Newsroom 101, and it’s one of the most acclaimed program of its kind in the country. And at the end of the seminars, discussions and work groups, the... Read More

Oklahoman.com hits the mark for some news consumers — here’s proof

May 02, 2012 I had a pleasant email conversation with a customer last week. He was a fan of news. He wants to read the news every day. He generally accesses most of his news digitally, but he had previously been an avid reader of The Oklahoman and was happy with our recent coverage enhancements. As a result, he had been... Read More

The Pendletons’ story hits close to home for NewsOK’s coverage of Memorial Marathon

April 25, 2012 The Oklahoman sports reporters have been writing some great stuff this week as they’ve been telling the stories of some of the people who are running in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon on Sunday. The coverage began this past Sunday when Jenni Carlson wrote about the impact of the Oklahoma City Memorial on... Read More