This Land Press

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This Land Press is a new voice from the middle of America. We produce award-winning content relevant to life and culture in the center of the USA.

Called "the New Yorker with balls" by Columbia Journalism Review, This Land Press is known for its innovative approach to narrative journalism. We offer a print publication, video programming, and a wide array of audio material. While most of our work is focused on our community in Northeastern Oklahoma, our stories are distributed to national audiences who are curious to hear thoughtful reporting from the nation's heartland.

For more information about us, visit our website at thislandpress.com

 

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Episode 10 - Fork in the Road
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
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This week, we go left or we go right.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 9 - This Machine Comes Home
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
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This week, the ghost of Woody Guthrie visits our studio and gets us on his wavelength.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 8 - Radio Potluck
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
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This week, our friends each bring a dish.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Portrait of Survivors of the 2013 Moore, Oklahoma Tornado
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
Caption: Cullen and Sara Bieger outside their home in Norman, Oklahoma. When the tornado hit, Cullen was at The Warren theater in Moore, where he had tickets to see Star Trek into Darkness. , Credit: Sheilah Bright
On Monday, May 20th, 2013, a tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people.

Bought by The Story and KUOW


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 7 - Teenagers
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: The White Dove Review
This week, we meet a rock star on our paper route.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 6 - Broken Down Hearted
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Singer-songwriter Ramsay Midwood, Credit: Abby Wendle
This week, our heart is in a hole.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5 - God & Country
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Billy James and Betty Jane Hargis from the collection of Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett. The collection of negatives was salvaged some years ago from the Howard Hopkins photo studio negatives from 1966 to 1979, including rare images of Hargis' Christian Crusa, Credit: Photo by Howard Hopkins
In a special edition of This Land Radio, we go back to Cold War Oklahoma.

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM and KOSU


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 4 - Sugar and Dirt
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Branding day in Kenton, Oklahoma, Credit: Sheilah Bright
This week, we dig.

Bought by KOSU and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3 - Sports!
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: On the hunt for bass at Grand Lake in Oklahoma for the 2013 Bassmaster Classic, Credit: Shane Benel
This week on This Land Radio, we learn the rules of the game just enough to question them.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 2 - Keeping Bees
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Elliott Heyne in his backyard in Broken Arrow, OK, Credit: Sterlin Harjo
This week we discover the healing power of small things that fly.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 1 - Where is Oklahoma?
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: Pawnee Bill's Original Wild West Show in Pawnee, OK, Credit: Natasha Ball
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we ask the question on every Oklahoman’s mind: Where the heck are we, anyway? Are we in the South, the...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KGOU, and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 3
Haircut and a Shave
From: This Land Press
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After a 27-year military career that included tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Bosnia, Mark Clay returned to Oklahoma in 2006 and--along wit...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Prayer Life
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Samuel Clifton Folks has lived in Tulsa all his life. Here, he remembers playing little league baseball as a young teenager in the mid-1960s.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Love at the Jamboree
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Three times a week, a tight knit group of senior citizens play old-time country, bluegrass and gospel at the Heavener, Howe and Poteau jamborees in...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
So Long Anthony Shadid
From: This Land Press
Series: The Short So Long
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Oklahoma City native Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack earlier this year while on assignment for The New York Times. Shadid worked as a forei...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KOSU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 2
"Coming Home" by Ken HAda
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
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People on the street lend their own, unique voices to this communal reading of Ken Hada’s “Coming Home.” Full poem below.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
The Perfect Storm
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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In this short documentary, folk musician and historian Tom Naples walks us through the dust bowl and tunes us into archival recordings and oral hi...

Bought by Listen Edition, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Racing Around the World
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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Jack Seehafer spent almost a decade as a professional cyclist before becoming a coach for Team Type 1. Here, Seehafer shares some of the trials and...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2
Life as a Death Investigator
From: This Land Press
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For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a different kind of death to chill her...

Bought by KUT and KOSU


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Up a Poet
From: This Land Press
Series: The Sound of Our Land
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John Brehm's family didn't discuss art or literature or poetry. Searching for his own way in the world, Brehm began writing. Decades later, he is t...

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1

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