Jason Collington

Tulsa World Executive Editor

Reporter Kevin Canfield comes from a family with a few journalists in it.

“My father was a newspaper columnist in Connecticut for decades, so I chose to cover a similarly exciting beat — local government,” he likes to say. “OK, it’s not glamorous. But I would argue it’s important, so I keep at it. Knowledge is power, as the saying goes.”

Canfield’s brother, Owen, is in the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. It’s only a matter of time before there are two Canfields there.

Canfield’s focus of coverage is everything that happens at city hall, and many times in county government and about three other areas. This is his third Tulsa mayor to cover.

“You can’t understand your community if you don’t know what’s going on,” he said in a video that i

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