A belated – but heartfelt – tribute to a dear friend…

Posted by John Small | Jan 13, 2021 | Small Talk

It was late 2012 - I can’t remember now the exact date, only that it was a Thursday and I was alone in the old Capital-Democrat building, sitting at my desk trying to dream up an idea for my column for the next week’s newspaper. The bell on the front door jingled, and I rose […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

A belated – but heartfelt – tribute to a dear friend…

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