Oklahoma Watch Inc

Programs: See schedule opublishing and distributing content, including articles, multimedia and social media. Accomplishents: oklahoma watch produced and published more than 300 pieces of content, including stories, data sets, data visualizations and videos, the majority of which were distributed to about 100 print, radio and television news outlets across oklahoma and in some cases were republished on national websites. All of the content focused on significant public-policy and quality-of-life issues, including education, health care, mental health, corrections, criminal justice, public money and poverty. This content effectively reached more than 1 million readers and viewers. More than half of expenditures were for compensation for reporters, contract journalists and a contract events person for the production of content and videotaped discussion of important issues. Grants received were earmarked for projects or sustainability efforts. Along with publication of content, oklahoma watch conducted several community forums that allowed attendees to pose questions to leaders in important public-policy areas. The events were videotaped for posting on the web, recorded for airing on public radio, and sometimes covered by newspapers and broadcast outlets, resulting in a potential reach of about 500,000 readers and viewers.

see schedule ocollaborating with college students and faculty to promote journalism as a career. Accomplishments: oklahoma watch's primary offices are in the gaylord college of journalism and mass communication at the university of oklahoma in norman. The organization leases office space from ou and, under a memorandum of understanding, agrees to take on university interns and collaborate in other unspecified ways. In 2014, oklahoma watch collaborated with the gaylord college on a major grant-funded project, talk with us, in which students in classes and paid student interns went into low-income neighborhoods in oklahoma city to conduct mobile video interviews with residents about their issues and concerns, then get response from public officials.