OMC News - Oklahoma Media Center

• FOI Oklahoma’s 2026 award winners, Black Hole recipient to be recognized at Oklahoma Local News Summit

• Inaugural Oklahoma Local News Summit set for Oct. 23 in Tulsa

• Commentary: News isn’t free. We all pay the price if we don’t financially support unbiased, local reporting

• The State of Local News: The 2024 Report

• 2024 Report: Local News & Information Ecosystems: The Oklahoma Chapter

• The George W. Bush Institute: Media literacy and collaboration in Oklahoma

• The Hot Seat: Trust in journalism and the free press from News 9

• Editor & Publisher: Oklahoma Media Center launches “Free Press Isn’t Free” local news literacy campaign

• Trusting News: How an ecosystem approach to change in local news is benefitting news consumers in Oklahoma

• OMC collaborators are completing their Ecosystem Engagement Fund projects and have given their final presentations to the entire group.

• “Preserving Democracy” on PBS: Collaborative training helps newsrooms with community listening to build transparency, improve trust for local news

• Oklahoma Media Center named one of the top 10 journalism collaborations of 2023 by the Center for Cooperative Media.

• OMC noted among statewide collaborative hubs, with ecosystem mapping project mentioned frequently.

• Read how Oklahoma Media Center awards grants to 12 local news organizations.

• More than 50 Oklahoma journalists representing 30 media organizations recently attended a training event with a nationally known nonprofit in Local newsrooms attend statewide training to improve trust in local news.

• Retired journalist Warren Vieth spotlights the encouraging emphasis on collaboration versus competition in the commentary Nonprofit news outlets: A growing, integral part of Oklahoma’s journalism landscape.

• The Inasmuch Ecosystem Engagement Fund will provide grants for newsrooms to execute data-driven projects based on the OMC’s groundbreaking ecosystem engagement project report.

• The American Press Institute article Want to protect democracy? Support the mental health of journalists highlights OMC’s Employee Assistance Program.

• Watch “How the Oklahoma Media Center’s ecosystem study is improving trust and funding in news,” a presentation by OMC Executive Director Rob Collins at the 2023 Collaborative Journalism Summit at George Washington University.

• Read the Oklahoma Media Center 2022 Impact Report.

• Philanthropy Southwest mentions OMC in this Civic and Community Engagement in Southwestern Philanthropy report for playing a “critical role in addressing news deserts and enabling coverage that would be beyond the reach of small newsrooms.”

• OMC’s work is mentioned in Disinformation: Reliable information is essential for democratic stability, a policy brief from the George W. Bush Institute.

• The Editor & Publisher piece Competitors to Colleagues: How collaboration can spur a renaissance of journalism features OMC.

• The Local News Lab’s Local Fix: Cheers to local news ecosystem successes highlights OMC among other collaborations building local infrastructure nationwide.

• Local Media Association’s OMC collaborators cover underreported communities, amplify audience engagement reports on a record number of media partnerships in Oklahoma.

• The Journal Record story Griffin, News 9, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma Watch and OMC moving to 100 West Main details new collaborative space in downtown Oklahoma City.

• A pioneering, organic collaboration between two competing news orgs is outlined in Oklahoma collaborators focus on sharing resources to publish best possible investigation.

• Russ Florence shows how Oklahoma’s media landscape has changed in Viewpoints: When Oklahoma journalists collaborate, the public wins, his column in The Oklahoman.

• Read the Oklahoma Media Center 2021 Impact Report.

• Oklahoma Media Center announces board members, election of officers in this LMA story.

• This Tahlequah (Okla.) Daily Press story explains how Media collaboration aims to provide more in-depth journalism.

• The LMA article Oklahoma newsrooms collaborate in revenue, audience experiments chronicles 12 projects fueled by OMC’s 2021 Innovation Fund.

• The Native News Online column Oklahoma Media Center works to continue coverage of McGirt v. Oklahoma provides an overview of OMC collaborating on the tribal sovereignty issue.

• Inasmuch Foundation makes significant new investment in Oklahoma Media Center, according to this LMA story.

• In this EDITOR & PUBLISHER VODCAST: Fighting for a Native American free press, OMC collaborators discuss providing unfettered news to Indigenous populations.

• Kirkpatrick Foundation awards grant to assist Oklahoma Media Center with data journalist, according to this LMA report.

• Voters make Muscogee (Creek) Nation first tribe to constitutionally protect its free press in the United States in this OMC article.

• This LMA story documents when Promised Land story-sharing subject surpasses 200 stories … and counting.

• NAJA provides ‘Check Your Bias’ training for OMC partners in this LMA article.

• The George W. Bush Presidential Center highlighted OMC for strengthening democracy to ensure a reliable — and free — flow of public information in Combating disinformation through local news ecosystems.

• The NAJA-OMC partnership to train Oklahoma media on Indigenous coverage is announced in this LMA report.

• LMF announces 12 stipends for Oklahoma Media Center 2021 Innovation Fund in this article.

• OMC announces Promised Land: Oklahoma collaborative to cover tribal sovereignty issue in this story.

• What can state newsrooms learn by working collaboratively? Read this E&P article.

• Get to know Rob Collins: Q&A with Oklahoma Media Center project lead via this article published by LMA.

• Rob Collins hired by Local Media Association to lead Oklahoma Media Center, according to this report.

• In first weeks of collaborative, Oklahoma media partners’ stories call out COVID impact on education thanks to Inasmuch, Walton Family Foundation support.

• Providing initial funding, Inasmuch Foundation makes significant investment in Oklahoma Media Center.

• Oklahoma Media Center receives $50,000 from the Walton Family Foundation to cover how COVID-19 and the economic crisis have affected education.

• Inasmuch Foundation and LMA launch Oklahoma Media Center, a statewide journalism collaborative, in this announcement story.