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.
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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A new Oklahoma law will allow producers to use a label for homemade food products that does not include their full name, address and phone number.
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The goal of Oklahoma State University’s Active Aging for LIFE program is to challenge stigmas against aging and bridge generational divides in six rural communities.
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Hundreds of Oklahoma high school seniors will graduate next month. On top of the end-of-year jitters and finals, prospective college students are completing FAFSA paperwork – but not always in English. Some students and their families need bilingual resources to take their next steps after graduation.
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Supporters of raising the minimum wage can start collecting signatures Tuesday on an initiative petition to put the issue on a ballot.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond filed lawsuits against natural gas suppliers for skyrocketing gas prices during Winter Storm Uri in 2021.
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Property damage from 16 western Oklahoma wildfires is expected to cost more than double the price of the Louisiana Purchase, according to the Oklahoma State University Extension Service.
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The only raw milk allowed to be advertised for on-farm sales in Oklahoma is goat milk, but Senate Bill 1963 would add donkey milk to the list.
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Every year, an Oklahoma farmer or rancher gets the Outstanding Achievement in Agriculture Award from the governor and is inducted in the Oklahoma Agriculture Hall of Fame. This year, the hall will welcome its first female inductee.
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A couple of Oklahoma’s border states have dairy herds with avian influenza but none have been detected in the Sooner State yet. Experts stress products remain safe to eat, risk to the public is still low and the milk supply is not expected to be impacted.
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Before he was Oklahoma State University’s mascot, Pistol Pete was a real person: Frank Eaton, a lawman and writer who lived near Perkins. Eaton captured one Oklahoma artist’s attention over the years. And as a final act, that artist began crafting a statue.