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December 2014 Best of The Month
December 2014 Best of The Month
Oklahoma City's First National Center set to go vacant as sale is clouded by lien
filing
Best Project
From: Robby Trammell
Nominee: Andrew Kittle/Phil OConnor/Warren Vieth
Addicted Oklahoma; Profiting From Pain
Play/Centerpiece Profiting From Pain; experts say clinics difficult to regulate (12-714)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Overdose kills man profiled in April report (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Call to Action (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Killer prescriptions (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Oklahoma Overdoses (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- States that have enacted broad pain clinic regulations (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Disturbances, thefts are common at medical clinic (Knittle) (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Indicators of a pill mill (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- How to get help (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Mother blames doctors, clinics for 27-year-old daughters death (Knittle)
(12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Roland clinic draws scrutiny of narcotics agents (Vieth) (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Death in a cheap motel room (Knittle) (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- An ugly thing (Knittle) (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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-- Our views: A new challenge in fight against painkillers (12-7-14)
http://archive.newsok.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?
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Best Review
From: Matt Price
Nominee: Brandy McDonnell
The long-awaited screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the
Woods" has its moments, but unfortunately, plain ones outnumber the grand in the
often-plodding fairytale mashup. Good analysis from Brandy on what was a fairly
complex review to write! Whether you liked or didn't like what Sondheim set out to
accomplish, Brandy did a good job of explaining all sides.
http://newsok.com/movie-review-into-the-woods-with-video/article/5378685
Best Video
Best Blog
From: Robb Hibbard
Nominee: Richard Hall
Richard was a blogging machine in December, and all of them brought NewsOK a lot
of readers and page views. The blogs, for the most part, seemed to have directly
connected with Oklahoma readers, as Richard wrote a lot of Oklahoma-centric posts
in December. Richard also maintains his cool and composure when responding to
readers' comments on his articles. The way he uses kindness and matter-of-factness
with readers has been praised by Alan Herzberger, Kelly Dyer Fry, Dan Barth and Jay
Spear. Richard even turned a critic into a possible NewsOK Contributor, just by
spending the time to talk to the reader.
Best Photo
From: Doug Hoke
Nominee: Steve Sisney
The Kennedy Elementary Honor Choir sings during the city's holiday lighting
festivities on Friday, Dec. 5, 2014 in Norman, Okla. The halo is from internal lens
flare caused by the strong backlights. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
Knowing when to break the rules is what creativity is about. Steve shot into the
light, causing a massive lens flare which added to the singers.
Best Graphic/Illustration
From: Todd Pendleton and Steve Boaldin
Nominee: Chris Schoelen
Great tag team on a very rare page one illustration.
Best Design
From: Amy Raymond
Nominee: Caleb McWilliams
Caleb has helped elevate the design for the wire pages each day he handles them.
He incorporates graphics into pages seamlessly and looks for interesting and
innovative ways to present the wire news. The wire duty at times can include a
large amount of work. The examples below include a day in which Caleb had four
pages to fill. In order to break stories into nontraditional story forms and make the
design work best with the editing, Caleb often copy edits most, if not all, of the
stories himself.
Best Headline(s)
From: Tom Maupin
Nominee: Amy Raymond
JUDGE CALLS TIME OUT 3A semifinal wont be played before Douglass-Locust Grove
fracas is sorted out -- Page 1a, all, Dec. 5, 2014 -- Story about the controversial
Douglass-Locust Grove football game.
Special Recognition
From: Mike Sherman
Nominee: Scott Wright
Scott deserves Overall Best of the Month for his coverage of one of the most
incredible months in the history of Oklahoman high school sports coverage. He
served as the lead writer throughout our coverage of the Douglass-Locust Grove
story, which made national news. He had the only video of the play in dispute. He
was lauded by the leadership of The Oklahoman for his live tweeting of OSSAA
hearings on this issue and the way he stayed impartial and fair throughout. He did
all this on top of the incredible load he already carried as the lead high school
writer, which in December includes the selection of All-State and All-City football,
volleyball, cross country and softball teams, coverage state championships, the
start of high school basketball and the additional breaking news story on Capitol Hill
changing its nickname to Redskins.
This is more a body of work nomination than any one story but here are the links to
Scott's work in December 2014 (below).
http://newsok.com/more/scott%20wright/?page=1