Despite the many controversies surrounding Epic Charter Schools, its advertising campaign, like a runaway train, continues full steam ahead. Tulsa World reported that Epic spent $2.5 million for an advertising campaign that covers television, radio and online ads. It also pays to sponsor play areas inside two malls, adding up to $105,000 in annual costs. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Conservative moves
Some Oklahomans are probably desensitized by all the cannabis dispensaries and advertisements that pop up everywhere, but Paul Chabot, a twice unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate, is not from here. And he just wants us to please think of the children. In a front-page story titled “Cannabis billboards irk some in state,” The Oklahoman reported that […]
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COVER: Viral disease
In early March 2015, a YouTube video emerged featuring members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant on a charter bus ride to Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club. The Lost Ogle jumped on the story and then local and national news outlets followed suit. Oklahoma’s “Obscure Local Social […]
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Surgeon general’s report sheds light on dangers of e-cigarettes
Consumption among teens and young adults is prevalent and dangerous.
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Chicken-Fried News: Public demon-stration
City officials are looking into advertising and promotion policies after backlash to a satanic ritual performed by renters at Civic Center Music Hall.
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Bert Stern: Original Madman
New to DVD from First Run Features, it is one of the very best nonfiction films of the past year. The former soda jerk and Korean War vet earned fame and fortune as a conceptual photographer in the Madison Avenue ad game, helping revolutionize the industry in the 1950s and ’60s with his creative thinking […]
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Mad, mad, mad men
Credit: Brad Gregg Ackerman McQueen, stated the Post, is responsible for one of the most controversial pro-gun ads in recent years, the one that bravely asked: “Are the president’s kids more important than yours? Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at […]
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Gazette’s Halloween Parade launches window painting contest
“If you can’t make it to the parade, this contest is a way to still be part of the fun and show off your artistic creativity,” said Brody Longest, Gazette marketing coordinator. Longest said the theme for the contest is ghosts, and the rules are as follows:• The design should relate to the theme and […]
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Frackin’ PR
The New York Times, which buys lots o’ ink, published a lengthy story titled “Insiders Sound an Alarm Amid a Natural Gas Rush” on June 25. Therein, Ian Urbina reported that natural gas companies were gambling enormously on wells, promising huge profits and new energy resources, but suggested that the gas may not be as […]
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Gazette receives eight awards from Oklahoma Press Association
The Gazette won first in the categories of Advertising, Sales Promotion, Editorial Comment, News Writing and Feature Writing. Regarding the Gazette’s Advertising entry coordinated by Advertising Director Terri Sadler, judges said, “very impressive — great work.” Sadler’s Sales Promotion entry showed a “very impressive range of advertising tools” with “wide audience appeal.” The Editorial Comment […]