Senate Honors Reporter John Greiner

The Oklahoma Senate paused to honor former State Capitol reporter John Greiner today. The 66-year-old Greiner retired from The Oklahoman last fall.

State Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee praised Greiner’s ethics and experience in covering the statehouse.

“John spent most of four decades covering the State Capitol. He has documented history in the making and worked diligently to ensure our citizens had access to vital information about their government,” said Coffee, author of Senate Resulting 9 praising Greiner. “But just as importantly, John stayed true to his ethics and worked to ensure his reporting was both accurate and balanced—and at all times, he was a gentleman.”

Greiner joined the newspaper in 1966 and covered seven gubernatorial administrations and more than a third of the state’s legislative sessions. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1993 and serves on the Advisory Committee of Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

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