
Anna Pope
Agriculture and Rural Issues ReporterAnna Pope is a multimedia journalist covering agriculture and rural affairs for KOSU. She joined KOSU in June 2023 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.
Her reporting on the 2024 tornado in Sulphur, Oklahoma was recognized with a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award, among the highest prizes in broadcast journalism.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Pope holds a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from Oklahoma State University, where she reported for the university’s paper, The O'Colly, and later became its news editor.
Pope interned at KOSU between May 2021 and May 2022, and was a 2021 Community Fellow with the Inasmuch Foundation, a nonprofit with the goal of improving the quality of life for Oklahomans.
After graduating OSU, she covered the impact of population growth as a Report for America corps member for KUAF, an NPR affiliate in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Oklahoma City television station News 9 is reporting an anti-government militia group targeted its weather radar system.
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In Canadian County, local librarians are taking storybooks outdoors in StoryWalk around Lake El Reno.
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On a bus tour, conservation advocates encourage producers to look at new practices to improve soil health.
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Over the weekend, the Town of Boley hosted the Oklahoma Black Towns Juneteenth Rhythm & Blues Festival. The event commemorates Juneteenth while celebrating community and the legacy of Oklahoma’s 13 remaining historic All-Black Towns.
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Oklahoma state officials announced junk food restrictions on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and stripped the state recommendation for fluoride in drinking water in a Thursday press conference.
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The City of Cushing’s Planning Commission voted against a permit for a wind turbine blade decommissioning facility, and now, the company’s officials running the operation are weighing their options.
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Reporters fanned out across the Oklahoma City Thunder championship parade. Here's what they saw.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a plan to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm this week.
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Shoppers are seeing record high beef prices at the grocery store. That's in part because the number of cattle in the U.S. is at an all-time low, while consumer demand has remained strong.
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KOSU reporters Anna Pope and Graycen Wheeler won a pair of local news prizes as they wrap up their time with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.