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.

Bison return to roam Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma
The sun rose over an undulating field as three members of the Cherokee Nation sang a buffalo song to the rhythmic pounding of a ceremonial drum, reintroducing an ancient tradition silent for more than a century. The song, in the Cherokee language, was chanted in the direction of a large cattle trailer where 38 female buffaloes awaited sunrise, when they would be released before a small group of about 30 tribe officials and members.
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The Homeless Front
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans now make up almost 20 percent of the homeless veterans they serve. At the height of his Army career, Tulsa native Titus Jacobs traversed hostile Baghdad streets, updating complex maps used to guide U.S. military assaults. Injured in a bomb blast and haunted by a close-range firefight on a crowded street, the staff sergeant returned home from that 2004-05 deployment a different person.
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Oklahoma town divided on influx of immigrant kids to Army base
It was noon on Sunday when Jose Luis, a 38-year-old construction worker who stopped for lunch at Aranda’s Mexican Grill, finished his menudo, a traditional Mexican stew of beef tripe in a red chili pepper broth. Mexican music blared from a corner jukebox. Jose Luis, an undocumented immigrant who declined to provide his last name, said he first crossed the U.S.
Oklahoma storms: Many Spanish-speaking families struggle to understand storm precautions, officials say
“Take care of your families,” Samuel Cifuentes told everyone he knew. He was filled with a sense of foreboding May 31 as bad weather moved toward Oklahoma City. He wanted to stay safe, and for others to say safe. Something was nagging him. He urged his co-workers and the families at his son's day care to be careful.
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Father of late journalist Anthony Shadid speaks about Oklahoma-born son's book, life, career
In every line of Anthony Shadid's book “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family and a Lost Middle East” are familiar faces and palpable memories, his father said. The retired Oklahoma City dentist sat in the comfortable den of his Nichols Hills home, surrounded by shelves of photos of a close-knit Lebanese-American family.
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Oklahoma wildfires: Body of adult found in burned rural Norman home
The first body pulled from a fire-ravaged home emphasized the human toll of the Oklahoma wildfires that have burned thousands of acres and destroyed an untold number of properties across the state in the past week. The body was found Saturday in east Norman near 120th Avenue SE and State Highway 9, authorities said Monday.
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A year later, school storm shelters in Oklahoma are ‘a political football’
In quiet moments, the grief hits her hardest. A rough-and-tumble 9-year-old, Christopher Legg sometimes conspired with his older brother to frighten his little sister. The siblings’ high jinks sent a familiar clamor throughout the family’s home. Christopher loved wrestling with his siblings and dad, and his family did not take moments like these for granted.
Expert Offers Tips On Dealing With Medical Bills
Medical bills are one of the reasons many Oklahoma families will have financial challenges or even file bankruptcy. Oklahoma City mother Juliana Keeping is a local newspaper reporter whose blog, hithisiseli.com, is where she uses candid and humorous writing to talk about raising a child with cystic fibrosis.
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A different kind of life
My son, Eli, needed emergency surgery within the first 24 hours of his life. He had cystic fibrosis, a deadly disease. As the events unfolded, I created blog, Twitter and Facebook account to document my son’s progress with cystic fibrosis. My dispatches are online at hithisiseli.com. The blog, This is Eli, was called a “Must-read” by The New York Times and a feature story based on the blog, "A different kind of life," was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by The Oklahoman. The story, which ran on June 2, 2013, won first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Oklahoma Chapter for feature writing and best personal column.
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Stories of recovery from along the path of the May 20 tornado
It started here, dropping from the sky above a small hill in a pasture in Newcastle. Nearby, 14 people and seven pets hid in a storm shelter, tears streaking the cheeks of three little girls as they huddled beneath their mother, Nikki Mack, on a cool gray slab. Winds ripped at the top of the shelter, pulling hard against a chain that anchored the wooden door to a concrete wall.
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Oklahoma wildfires: Body of adult found in burned rural Norman home
The first body pulled from a fire-ravaged home emphasized the human toll of the Oklahoma wildfires that have burned thousands of acres and destroyed an untold number of properties across the state in the past week. The body was found Saturday in east Norman near 120th Avenue SE and State Highway 9, authorities said Monday.
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Oklahoma City car chase ends in parking lot with two vehicles caught on fire
He called the blue Ford Taurus his baby and kept it meticulously clean. A woman fleeing the police in a van slammed into John Mitchell's Taurus while he worked a shift at Carl's Jr. at NW 23 and N MacArthur Boulevard in Oklahoma City. Mitchell's Taurus and a white Chevy Tahoe that belonged to another employee burst into flames.
Meers Store and Restaurant still serves a mean “seismic burger,” even with a broken seismograph
At Meers Store and Restaurant, they still serve the 1-pound “Seismic Meersburger” even if the instrument from which the burger draws its name long ago went silent. This is the seismograph in the Meers Store. Photo by David McDaniel, The Oklahoman. For two decades, a seismograph that sits in the restaurant’s lobby measured even the tiniest of the earth’s vibrations.
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Saving the Comanche language
An industrial park full of beige corrugated steel buildings seems an unlikely place for the resuscitation of a dying language. Yet in a small day care center there, a dedicated Comanche speaker is breathing life into her ancestral tongue. Each work day, Billie Cable-Kreger, 61, arrives at the center.
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About

Juliana Keeping

Journalism

Social media

Reader engagement

Enterprise writing

Breaking news

Crime reporting

Blogging

Open records

Google hangouts

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

Shooting digital video

Editing digital video

Wordpress

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Freedom of Information Act

Investigative reporting

Start-ups

AP Style

Reporting grants

Research

Audio

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Vine

You Tube

iMovie

Final Cut (basic)

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Police reporting

Content Management Systems

Drinking coffee

Concocting green smoothies

Running

at a snail's pace

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.