The Purcell Register was presented with the Sequoyah Award by Oklahoma Press Association President Mike Strain, right, with the top award for the large weekly division of the Better Newspaper Contest Saturday night at the Sheraton Hotel in Oklahoma City. From left are Vickie Foraker, Gracie Montgomery, John Denny Montgomery, Emily Montgomery, John D. Montgomery and Strain.
The nine Oklahoma Newspapers that won the top award in the Better Newspaper Contest for 2020 took time for a group photo at the downtown Oklahoma City Sheraton Hotel Saturday night. Pictured from left, front row, are Beau Simmons of the Stillwater News Press, Erin Dyer Thompson of the El Reno Tribune, Amie Remer of the Eastern Times-Register and John Denny Montgomery of The Purcell Register. Back row - David Stringer of The Lawton Constitution, Rusty Ferguson of The Cleveland American, Art Haddaway of the Owasso Reporter, David Bublitz of The Cameron University Collegian and Gary Jackson of the Tahlequah Daily Press.
The Oklahoma Press Association presented its Better Newspaper Contest Awards during the OPA Annual Convention June 11-12 at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City.
Winner’s of this year’s Sequoyah Awards in the contest were announced for the nine different divisions including Division 4, the large weekly division.
The Sequoyah Award, which is the highest honor in the Better Newspaper Contest, is determined by the number of points accumulated in eight of the contest’s 20 categories including News Content, Layout and Design, Advertising, Editorial Writing, Photography, Sports Coverage, Sales Promotion and Community Leadership.
For the seventh time in the last 10 years, and eighth overall, The Purcell Register won its division.
The Register finished first in Editorial Writing, Sports Coverage and Community Leadership. The newspaper finished second in Advertising and third in Photography and Layout and Design.
Other Sequoyah Award winners in their respective categories included The Lawton Constitution, Stillwater News Press, Tahlequah Daily Press, El Reno Tribune, The Cleveland American, Owasso Reporter and the Eastern Times-Register.
The contest also included a Digital Media category in three divisions, dailies, weeklies and colleges.
The Register finished second in that event for weekly and semi-weekly newspapers.
Individually, The Registers’ graphic designer, David Stull, finished first and second in designing Small Space Advertisements.
The contest was judged by members of the Iowa Press Association.
Former Register managing editor and current publisher of The Newcastle Pacer, Mark Codner, was honored with the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation Beachy Musselman Award.
Each year the ONF recognizes a journalist for his or her contribution to the field of printed journalism.
The recipient of the Musselman Award is selected by the ONF Board of Trustees.
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