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Covering Government: The Work Of Reporters

Gov. Mary Fallin prepares to deliver her 2013 State of the State address, flanked by Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, and House Speaker T.W. Shannon.
Joe Wertz
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StateImpact Oklahoma

July 20, 2014

This is from the Manager’s Desk.

A new study by Pew Research confirms what many of us knew … that the number of full time journalists covering state government continues to decline.  Here’s a link to that study.

Not only is the number of reporters shrinking, the number of bills the various state legislators are passing is increasing. How can 10 or 20 or 40 reporters cover all those bills, plus the state agencies that enact them, state courts that rule on them, and what happens to people because of those laws?

The study said Oklahoma has 21 state capitol reporters. That may include StateImpact Oklahoma reporters and KGOU and other public radio reporters who cover government stories.

The work KGOU and StateImpact Oklahoma does to cover state and local government is critical. We do it with your support. And we would do more if we could.

Thanks.

From the Manager’s Desk, I’m Karen Holp.

Karen earned her Master (1974) and Bachelor (1972) degrees from the University of Akron in Ohio, and has worked as Program Director at WMRA-FM, James Madison University in Harrisonburg Virginia and WUIS-FM, University of Illinois at Springfield. She moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1979 to become General Manager of KRWG-FM.
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