Highest honors: Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame welcomes new class

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

Don Mecoy
Don Mecoy

Included in the honorees were Don Mecoy, who retired in 2022 as managing editor for The Oklahoman, and Amy Raymond, a copy editor, designer and director at The Oklahoman before her death in 2021.

Amy Raymond
Amy Raymond

The induction ceremony was held Thursday 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 hall of fame member since 2013. “This continues as Oklahoma’s highest journalistic honor because of that quality.”

Other inductees

  • Bill Braun, a courthouse reporter for 33 years at the Tulsa World.

  • Andrea Eger, an education and investigative reporter for the Tulsa 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 play-by-play announcer and sports production company owner.

  • 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.

2023 Lifetime Achievement honorees

  • Joyce Jackson, the first Black woman journalist on Oklahoma television and now publisher of Shades of Oklahoma magazine.

  • Vance Harrison, president of the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters

All 12 honorees became members of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, which now has inducted nearly 500 members since its beginning.

A 12-member selection committee, consisting mostly of hall of fame members, chose this year’s class and Lifetime Achievement honorees from nearly 85 nominations.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame welcomes new class, honors others