Jack Willis

Props to the Tulsa World for put­ting its money where its mouth is in an effort to protect citizens’ access to public information. The World isn’t the first news organi­zation to sue bureaucratic rascals for information, but this case is one of the most recent. The World filed suit last month against the U.S. Marshals […]

Props to the Tulsa World for put­ting its money where its mouth is in an effort to protect citizens’ access to public information. The World isn’t the first news organi­zation to sue bureaucratic rascals for information, but this case is one of the most recent. The World filed suit last month against the U.S. Marshals […]

We Gannett editors in the 1980s were required to rank employees from most valuable to least valuable. (If you want to make friends and influence workers, try that sometime.) I know supervisors rate employees in their own minds, but forwarding the ranking to corporate seemed like a bosses-gone-wild episode. You knew what the brass would […]

We Gannett editors in the 1980s were required to rank employees from most valuable to least valuable. (If you want to make friends and influence workers, try that sometime.) I know supervisors rate employees in their own minds, but forwarding the ranking to corporate seemed like a bosses-gone-wild episode. You knew what the brass would […]

Back when I was a babe in the woods, the Oklahoma Press Association asked a few of us jour­nalism professors to visit the state’s newsrooms. We offered help ” if the editor wanted it, of course. It was a time when anonymous columns ” because they were so well read ” were popping up in […]

Back when I was a babe in the woods, the Oklahoma Press Association asked a few of us jour­nalism professors to visit the state’s newsrooms. We offered help ” if the editor wanted it, of course. It was a time when anonymous columns ” because they were so well read ” were popping up in […]

I always enjoy checking the mail. I’m a retired kind of guy. Strolling to the mailbox often highlights my day. I even like junk mail. I always think someone’s going to send me something important. (They rarely do.) On a recent trip out front, a letter from Cancer Care Associates in Oklahoma City caught my […]

I always enjoy checking the mail. I’m a retired kind of guy. Strolling to the mailbox often highlights my day. I even like junk mail. I always think someone’s going to send me something important. (They rarely do.) On a recent trip out front, a letter from Cancer Care Associates in Oklahoma City caught my […]