Journalists due honor

Ten journalists and two Lifetime Achievement honorees highlight Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame’s 53rd anniversary

Ten longtime journalists, the president of the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters and the first Black woman in the Oklahoma City broadcast market will be among those honored at the 53rd annual luncheon and induction ceremony of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.

The induction ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 4, in the grand ballroom of the Nigh University Center at the University of Central Oklahoma.

“The 2023 induction class shows the quality of journalists who have spent most of their careers in Oklahoma,” said Director Joe Hight, who is also UCO’s Edith Kinney Gaylord Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics and a OJHOF member since 2013. “This continues as Oklahoma’s highest journalistic honor because of that quality.”

The 2023 induction class will be Bill Braun, a courthouse reporter for 33 years at the Tulsa World; Andrea

Eger, an education and investigative reporter for the World; Joey Goodman a longtime sportswriter and sports editor for The Lawton Constitution; Walter “Skipper” Harrison, a longtime journalist, editor and author before his death in 1961; Chris Lincoln, a sports director, network playby-play announcer and sports production company owner; Don Mecoy, who just retired as managing editor for The Oklahoman; Dee Morales, a freelance national network reporter and producer who was among the first group of TV women reporters in Oklahoma; Chuck Musgrove, longtime managing editor of KFOR-TV; Myron Patton, sports talk show host and sports director at KOKH Fox 25; and Amy Raymond, a copy editor, designer and director at The Oklahoman before her death in 2021.

“First and foremost, the Selection Committee considers their qualities as a journalist. That combined with their other accomplishments distinguish them as future hall of fame members,” Hight said.