Voices of Oklahoma Board President Gene Perry recently spoke at the Forum for Democratic Action. The Forum is a monthly event held at the Pink Elephant Cafe in Norman. Listen to his speech here about the changing state of journalism in the U.S., the new role of community media, and the need for more diverse media outlets in Oklahoma…

From The OU Daily:
TV4OU, the student-produced television station at the Gaylord College of Journalism, is now available to all Cox digital cable subscribers in Oklahoma, on its new home on Channel 124.
“While other institutions across the state of Oklahoma may be broadcasted on-air, the University of Oklahoma will be the only one to have its own dedicated public access channel,” said John Hockett, assistant dean of Gaylord College.
All programming produced by the Gaylord College will transition from its current spot on Cox’s Channel 4 to 124, and is now available …

From NewsOK:
Old editions dating to the early 1900s are ashes. Desktop computers were melted. And huge rolls of newsprint resembled charred marshmallows.
But what wasn’t lost in the fire that ravaged the offices of The Anadarko Daily News early Saturday was important news that only a community paper provides.
Read the rest.

by Gene Perry

This is an experiment, but it’s a good time for experiments. A couple of months ago, The Oklahoma Gazette reported that only one reporter, from OETA, visits the capitol building every day. They wrote that the total number of journalists covering our state government is in the teens, compared to 39 reporters in 1978…