OPUBCO / Oklahoman Business Practices

[soonerguru]

1. What is with the arbitrary pay wall? I get that they want subscribers but it is oddly deployed, for example the story about Christina Fallin suing the janitorial company for unpaid wages.

2. I imagine most of their readership is now online. So why do they post so few photos with their stories? It's bizarre. It's not like they are running out of "space."
More photos would generate more user site engagement.

3. Why do they publish so much right-wing click bait from The Examiner? We all secretly believe the DOK is a biased, conservative news source, but publishing the garbage from the Examiner just undermines whatever attempt the DOK tries to make to appear an objective news organization.

4. Why no depth to the stories? Steve does a good job on his pieces but most of the news and sports articles are six to eight paragraphs, max. It's again like they are short of "space."

The Oklahoman was a good early adopter of the Internet, but it appears to have stalled.

[Mr. Cotter]

3. Why do they publish so much right-wing click bait from The Examiner? We all secretly believe the DOK is a biased, conservative news source, but publishing the garbage from the Examiner just undermines whatever attempt the DOK tries to make to appear an objective news organization.
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Common ownership.

I also hate the links to online articles, even the ones from Tulsa World (who, for some reason, does better reporting from the Capital than the paper of record in the capital city).