The OU Daily has been named a 2024 Crown Award finalist in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s hybrid news category.
The Crowns honor the nation’s top student media publications for overall excellence. The other finalists this year in the category, which evaluates news organizations’ collective digital and newspaper work, were:
• The Daily Toreador at Texas Tech
• The Hornet Tribune at Alabama State
• The Ithacan at Ithaca College
This marks the Daily’s eighth consecutive year as a finalist, its longest streak in organization history, per available records.
Finalists will learn whether they earn Gold or Silver distinctions on March 15 during the association’s convention in New York.