OU Daily earned a Pinnacle Awards finalist honor bestowed on the nation’s best college media organizations in results announced this week by the College Media Association.
OU Daily was named one of the five best four-year college media outlets on campuses with more than 10,000 students. The other finalists are at UCLA, Indiana University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Michigan.
Entries judged were produced between June 2023-June 2024, spanning the tenures of summer 2023 editor-in-chief Colton Sulley and fall 2023-spring 2024 editor-in-chief Karoline Leonard.
OU Student Media endeavors have now earned 15 organizational Pinnacle honors since 2017.
OU Daily has been named a media outlet of the year finalist in college media seven times in the past eight years, winning the top honor in 2017 and 2019.
The distinction recognizes organizations that serve audiences through multiple channels, across writing, photo, video, design, apps, social media and more with, according to the judging criteria, “a day-in-day-out quality and quantity of coverage that students, faculty, staff and administrators want — and frankly, need.”
Winners will be named between Oct. 30-Nov. 2 at the fall national college media convention in New Orleans.
