Juliana Keeping

Oklahoma City, OK

Greetings. I'm an enterprise reporter at The Oklahoman with a passion for storytelling in print and online.

Juliana Keeping

Oklahoma City, OK

Greetings. I'm an enterprise reporter at The Oklahoman with a passion for storytelling in print and online.

Hundreds attend funeral of Oklahoma couple as manhunt for suspect continues
More than a dozen law officers stood by Friday as hundreds of mourners gathered to pay tribute to a slain couple whose killer remains at large. The couple’s last rites were steeped in faith, but a cloud of uncertainty hung over the town of 1,220 northeast of Oklahoma City. Michael Dale Vance Jr., 38, who is accused in the deaths, not only remains at large but is reported to have a hit list that includes family members who attended the funeral.
The Washington Post
In Oklahoma, killings of Native Americans raise questions
After family members of several Native Americans with mental illness asked authorities for help, their relatives were later killed by law enforcement. The scenario has played out in Custer County and elsewhere in Western Oklahoma at least three times in recent years. This is the first in a three-part series exploring the case of Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, an 18-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, shot by sheriff's deputies after his father called 911.
‘Justice for Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket’: Frustration lingers in Oklahoma
After family members of several Native Americans with mental illness asked authorities for help, their relatives were later killed by law enforcement. The scenario has played out in Custer County and elsewhere in Western Oklahoma at least three times in recent years. This is the second in a three-part series exploring the case of Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, an 18-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, shot by sheriff's deputies after his father called 911.
Race and justice in Oklahoma: Natives struggle to overcome disparity
After family members of several Native Americans with mental illness asked authorities for help, their relatives were killed by law enforcement. The scenario has played out in Custer County and elsewhere in western Oklahoma at least three times in recent years. This is the third in a three-part series exploring the case of Mah-hi-vist Goodblanket, an 18-year-old member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, shot by sheriff's deputies after his father called 911.
How one US state went from two quakes a year to 585
Crescent (United States) (AFP) - The central US state of Oklahoma has gone from registering two earthquakes a year to nearly two a day and scientists point to a controversial culprit: wastewater injection wells used in fracking. Located in the middle of the country, far from any major fault lines, Oklahoma experienced 585 earthquakes of a magnitude of 3.0 or greater in 2014.
Yahoo!
10 years of OKC police discipline
When a passing motorist yelled “Road rage sucks” at Oklahoma City police Sgt. Matthew Downing during a January 2014 traffic stop, Downing chased the man down in a convenience store, wrestled him to the ground and arrested him. A supervisor who soon arrived disagreed with Downing’s use of force and subsequent arrest and released the man.
The Oklahoman
Deadly force: A decade of Oklahoma City Police Department shootings
There have been 78 incidents in the last decade where Oklahoma City police have opened fire. Twenty-eight of the shootings resulted in a death. Six people died from police gunfire in 2013— the deadliest year in the decade. Confrontations between officers and the public that end in gunfire are among the most important cases a department can confront, law enforcement experts say. Such incidents can influence community perceptions and, if mishandled, undermine the credibility and public confidence in the police. Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty says none of his more than 1,000 officers want to discharge their weapons; the choice to use deadly force is one of the most critical choices an officer makes. “It’s a life or death decision,” Citty said.
The Oklahoman
Deadly Force: The death of Daryl Ray Wilson
TRYON — Down a dirt road, past a rusty gate, in a small white home with plywood siding and a chimney in need of repair, Ralonda Wilson lives and looks for peace. On a hot, July Saturday night in 2008, Oklahoma City Police Officer Grant Brooks shot and killed her oldest son, 18-year-old Daryl Ray Wilson.
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma tornadoes: Friend recalls victim as 'loving and giving'
Lue Deason worried for her neighbor and friend, Skylyna Stewart, who lived alone in a rural expanse of southeast Oklahoma City except for the company of her chihuahuas, Penny and Bear. Deason feared that her friend’s kindness made her a target — she sometimes let squatters live on her land and catch catfish in the pond.
The Oklahoman
Marlow newspaper carries on after owners' deaths
“Thank you for calling The Marlow Review, this is Donna, may I help you?”. says Suson, 45, who, like three other staffers at the office on this recent Wednesday morning — deadline day for the weekly publication — wears jeans and a blue long-sleeve T-shirt emblazoned with the newspaper’s name. The caller receives prompt information about the cost — $25 — and deadline — 5 p.m.
The Oklahoman
Learning to live with cystic fibrosis
I’m pushing my two-year-old son in a shopping cart at a discount grocer when we hear the chest-rattling hacks nearby. We walk past the toddler as a fit rages through his tiny body. His parents pat his back. A look of disgust crosses one shopper’s face. “Why would they bring him out?”. utters another.
Plaza Towers teacher names newborn after student killed in May 20 tornado
Jennifer Doan laid a comforting hand on the back of crying third-grader Nicolas McCabe and told him it was OK just as the twister struck. Jennifer Doan, a teacher at Plaza Towers elementary school, is pulled out from under tornado debris at the school in Moore on May 20. Sue Ogrocki - AP. The EF5 tornado on May 20 destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore.
The Oklahoman
In Halliburton’s hometown, oil giant is both hero and menace
He filled his pond and watered his animals and garden with the water from their well, which was also the couple’s source of drinking water. Since moving to the property in 1987, the land and little home on it had been the Owens’ paradise. But from their vantage point on the back porch, the couple saw troubling things too.
Cherokee language: From Trail of Tears to texting in the native tongue
The children stand in a circle, just beyond a poster of a U.S. map that highlights the swath of the Southeastern United States that the Cherokees once controlled. The fourth-grade students are in a classroom at the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in eastern Oklahoma, where they speak, learn and write in nothing but the tongue of their ancestors.
Saving The Last Dance | NewsOK
For almost two decades, renowned dancer Shannon Primeau has been transforming the lives of young people at her Oklahoma City dance studio, where the highlight of the year is the annual spring recital. More than 400 dancers will practice nine months leading up to the big performance. But this year, the recital, the studio and even Primeau’s legacy are at risk.
The Oklahoman
Oklahoma wildfires: Residents get back to their lives while remembering the worst
Marie Montelongo doesn't have time to get sentimental about the possessions she lost after her home burned to the ground. Montelongo had ducks to save from the heat, a fence line to run and cattle to find after a wildfire ravaged the family's 200-acre Spanish Spur ranch in rural Glencoe Saturday, she said Sunday.
The Oklahoman

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Juliana Keeping

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I'm a full-time enterprise reporter at The Oklahoman, where I seek to highlight the unusual, the untold and the little-heard voice. Subject matter spans the new face of the homeless veteran to exploding oil trains, native language revitalization to longhorn hamburgers named for seismic activity. In 2012 and 2013, I covered breaking news, including killer wildfires and some of the largest and most dangerous tornadoes the world has ever seen. I'm comfortable working with video, audio, HTML and social media and communicating with the reading public over multiple platforms.

Previous gigs have included stints in the Chicago media at the SouthtownStar (The Star at the time), where my investigative reports unseated a corrupt school superintendent and won a Peter Lisagor Award for investigative reporting. At a start-up digital news outlet in Ann Arbor, Mich., I exposed an unconstitutional campus bans policy used to stifle free speech on traditional public forums at the University of Michigan. After highlighting the plight of numerous individuals banned for life from the public university for exercising protected free speech, students protested and the ACLU threatened a lawsuit. Facing public outcry, U-M overturned the bans policy and reversed thousands of lifelong campus bans.

In 2011, I won a George Polk Awards Program grant for a digital journalism project. Members of a Michigan infantry unit of soldiers sent video and documented their experiences while deployed to northeast Afghanistan through 2012.

I enjoy digital media, breaking news, crime reporting and investigative and enterprise projects.