Hello, Readers:
Check out NewsOK’s podcast page to hear the interns reflect on their past six weeks at The Oklahoman!
— Kristen, Adrielle and Nathan, on interning for the City and Business desks and the Data team.
— Monica and Hailey, on interning for Metro and State.
— Mike and Dontay, on interning for Sports.
And now, we’ve got less than two weeks left — Who would believe two months could go by so fast?
~ Kristen M. Daum, City Desk intern at The Oklahoman.
Each month in The Oklahoman’s News and Information Center, ”Best of the Month” honors are awarded to the top achievements in news-gathering, reporting or presentation. In June’s “Best of the Month,” members of the 2008 Intern Class were selected for several accomplishments!!
Here’s what Joe Hight, The Oklahoman’s director of information and development, said about this month’s intern winners:
BEST INTERN ACHIEVEMENT: (an annual category for June/July)
— Jennifer Adams (Graphics) and Nathan Curby (Data), for their work to create an interactive map of all public golf courses in the metro area for the “know it: Golf.”
— Hailey Branson (State), for her 16 stories - including five for Page 1A.
SPECIAL RECOGNITION:
— Hailey Branson, Johnny Johnson, Sheila Stogsdill, Ron Jackson, Julie Bisbee, John Sutter and Henry Dolive, for their online and print coverage of the tragic deaths of two girls in Weleetka.
— The City desk (including Kristen M. Daum and Brian Kimball), Metro, Photo, State and Video departments, online editors, Paul Monies, Steve Maupin and the Data Team deserve special recognition for their work on the election filing period. This year, the work included providing candidate information for the new ElectOK.com.
— The Intern Class of 2008 deserves special recognition for its efforts to write the “Intern Blog” and then promote it. The blog rose to No. 1 or 2 during certain days in June and was No. 6 overall on NewsOK for the month.
Congratulations on your achievements, fellow interns!!
~ Kristen M. Daum, City Desk Intern at The Oklahoman.
We have two winners today in the Intern Blog Riddle Contest!
The incredible Lisa Janssen solved today’s riddle in just under three minutes — an absurd time given the difficulty of the puzzle – moving her into a third-place tie with Monica “Einstein” Albert and the “Fesity Kansan Giant,” Adrielle Harvey, all with two points apiece. Each girl just needs one more answer to earn a free lunch at the restaurant of their choice!
Lisa has also now finished either first or second in each of the last four riddles. She’s playing at a whole different level than the rest of the interns, establishing herself as the Tiger Woods of word riddles. From now on, she will be known as “Lisa Linguistics” for her extraordinary word skills.
Also — as you can see in the two pictures above – “Dakotan Decipherer” Kristen Daum solved today’s puzzle as well! But she only earned .5 points, and subsequently only .5 of a picture, because Lisa Linguistics beat her to the punch. But nonetheless, Kristen moves into sole possession of second place with her 2.5 points and needs just another half-point to earn a free lunch! Let’s recape today’s riddle, which Chase Estes and Adrielle Harvey also solved:
A “word chain” is a sequence of words formed by changing just one letter each time to complete a chain between a beginning word and an end word. For example, the word chain for CAT and DOG is : CAT, COT, DOT, DOG.
Complete the following word chain for GAMES and CHESS. I have provided clues to the right of each of the answers:
GAMES
_ _ _ _ _ (Stares with wonder)
_ _ _ _ _ (Superhero clothes)
_ _ _ _ _ (Manages)
_ _ _ _ _ (Middle sections)
_ _ _ _ _ (Generic military orginization)
_ _ _ _ _ (Cages)
_ _ _ _ _ (Harvests)
_ _ _ _ _ (Traverse)
_ _ _ _ _ (Type of salad plant)
CHESS
The answers: games, gapes, capes, copes, cores, corps, coops, crops, cross, cress and chess.
Congratulations to Lisa, Kristen, Adrielle and Chase! Check back at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning for the next riddle!
Jason Singer, Sports/Metro Intern
