Journalists Help to Tell Tulsa’s Story
2 former TV journalists produce news-style videos for city of Tulsa | Tulsa World
Beth Hawkins’ newsroom is a city of Tulsa office. Her paycheck bears the city logo.
But as far as she and her employer are concerned, the former KJRH-Channel 2 reporter is still a journalist – the face of an emerging division of the city’s Communications Department that produces online videos about events, trends and city government in the style of news reports.
“We’re like NPR,” said Lloyd Wright, Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s press secretary. “The whole drive behind this is to be able to tell the stories behind Tulsa that don’t get told.”
Bartlett hired Hawkins for the Video Services Division in August 2011 and added Brian Nutt, another former KJRH employee, a year later as a videographer and editor.