Finalists have ben named for the 2018 Great Plains Journalism Awards. The Awards Luncheon is set for May 4 at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tickets are $50; $45 for media/students. Tickets can be purchased at shop.tulsapressclub.org. A complete schedule of events is here. CBS News’ Omar Villafranca will be recognized as the Distinguished Lecturer, with workshops led by ProPublica Illinois’ Louise Kiernan, attorney Douglas “Doug” Dodd and National Geographic’s Andrea Leitch.
605 Magazine
Kyle Determan
Taylor Hanson
Liz Painter
Alana Snyder
John Snyder
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
David Barham
Amanda Claire Curcio
Sean Clancy
Eric Besson
Kelly Brant
John Deering
Frank Fellone
Hunter Field
Lisa Hammersly
Eric Harrison
Ben Krain
Jillian Kremer
Gavin Lesnick
Philip Martin
Tommy Metthe
Kirk Montgomery
Mitchell Pe Masilun
Emma Pettit
Brandon Riddle
Staff
Celia Storey
Michael Storey
Stephen Thornton
Sandra Tyler
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Magazines
Seth Eli Bartow
Katie Bridges
Emma Devine
Jordan Hickey
Wesley Hitt
Arshia Khan
Rett Peek
John David Pittman
David Priest
Johnny Caroll Sain
Wyndham Wyeth
The Curbside Chronicle
Whitley O’Connor
Joshua Officer
Quit Nguyen
The Daily Republic
Matt Gade
The Frontier
Clifton Adcock
Dylan Goforth
The Gazette – Langston University
Brittni Logan
Global Sisters Report
Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Kansas State Collegian
Cooper Kinley
Kansas State University Athletics Communications
Cooper Kinley
KFOR
Marc Dillard
Jon Slater
KTUL
Bryan Clemmer
Andrejs Dabars
Maureen Wurtz
Land Line Magazine
John Bendel
Tyson Fisher
Lincoln Journal Star
Cindy Lange-Kubick
Peter Salter
Staff
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Staff
Oklahoma Humanities Magazine
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Carla Walker
The Oklahoman
Brianna Bailey
Jim Beckel
Jenni Carlson
Jaclyn Cosgrove
Josh Dulaney
Richard Hall
Carla Hinton
Doug Hoke
Adam Kemp
Chris Landsberger
Tim Money
Todd Pendleton
Sarah Phipps
Staff
Bryan Terry
Berry Tramel
Oklahoma Watch
Trevor Brown
Mollie Bryant
Jennifer Palmer
Warren Vieth
Omaha Magazine
Christopher Marshall
Doug Meigs
Joe Pankowski
Thomas Sanchez
Bill Sitzmann
Staff
Otis Twelve
Matt Wieczorek
Omaha World-Herald
Michael Boehnlein
Dirk Chatelain
Todd Cooper
Henry Cordes
Erin Duffy
Joe Dejka
Megan Farmer
Betsie Freeman
Matt Haney
Matthew Hansen
Sarah Baker Hansen
Sarah Hoffman
Steve Jordon
James Kellerman
Jeff Koterba
Chris Machian
Sam McKewon
Micah Mertes
Rich Mills
Michael O’Connor
Katie Myrick Parks
Tim Parks
Haylee Pearl
Tim Sacco
Aaron Sanderford
Barbara Soderlin
Ryan Soderlin
Staff
Brendan Sullivan
Jessica Thompson
Paige Yowell
Omaha World-Herald Magazine
Chris Christen
Heidi Thorson
Heather and Jameson
Jessica Luna
Kali Rahder
St. Louis Business Journal
Katlyn Keller
Jacob Kirn
Steph Kukuljan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kurt Erickson
Benjamin Hochman
Dan Martin
Kevin McDermott
Tony Messenger
Jack Suntrup
Wade Wilson
Sauce Magazine
Meera Nagarajan
Carmen Troesser
Sunflower Publishing
Kevin Anderson
Jason Dailey
Amber Fraley
Kelly Gibson
Brian Goodman
Jenni Leiste
Katie Moore
Amanda Nagengast
Nathan Pettengill
Bill Stephens
Tulsa Kids Magazine
Betty Casey
Diane Morrow-Kondos
Tara Rittler
TulsaPeople Magazine
Michelle Pollard
The Tulsa Voice
Madeline Crawford
Maxx Crawford
Angela Evans
Tulsa World
Mark Cooper
Andrea Eger
Wayne Greene
Kyle Margerum
Ian Maule
Stephen Pingry
Bruce Plante
Jessica Rodrigo
Mike Simons
Michael Smith
Staff
Tim Stanley
Cody Stavenhagen
Jimmie Tramel
Jessie Wardarski
Tulsa World Magazine
Jason Collington
Ginnie Graham
Debbie Jackson
Randy Krehbiel
Michael Overall
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Jimmie Tramel