December News Byte 2022

Two days left and counting…

Happy Winter, Verified News Community. I’m VNN’s Brittany Harlow here to present you (get it 🎁?) with our December News Byte.

Here in Oklahoma, a Broken Arrow golfer became the first high schooler in the state to land a Name, Image, and Likeness deal.  

And the Lucinda Hickory Research Institute launched a new online submission form to collect Allotment Era stories for its research database. 

In affiliate news, the Black Wall Street Times told us about a judge’s delay on the case for Muscogee Creek Freedmen citizenship. 

Broken Arrow Sentinel debuted a new series called "Sudden Death" about the fentanyl crisis that has killed thousands of people in Oklahoma and across the nation.

And Big If True changed their name to Streetlight. Find more from them and our other VNN Oklahoma affiliates, The Frontier and Mvskoke Media, in the VNN News Feed. 

Plus, news from our new national affiliate Kaiser Health News. 

Over in Michigan, VNN Michigan Journalist Rachael has been surveying community members to discover the kinds of coverage you want most in the new year.

She also gave us an update on ArtPrize 2.0 coming in 2023. 

And we received our first award this month! Presented to VNN Oklahoma for our illustrated news story concept, featuring the case of April Wilkens. 

Thank you to our holiday story sponsors Hearth Homes and Carabelle’s Legacy, Inc. for two months of fun holiday content! And thanks to you, Verified News Community!

Thanks for another great year of working together to better our communities AND the news industry through grassroots news in action.

Happy New Year from everyone at VNN!