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The OU Daily was named a 2023 Crown Award finalist Wednesday 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 in the category, which evaluates news organizations’ collective digital and newspaper work, this year were: 

This marks the Daily’s seventh consecutive year as a finalist, its longest streak in organization history, per available records. 

Finalists will learn whether they earned Gold or Silver distinctions at the annual College Media convention March 8-11 in New York.

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