Anna Pope
Reporter, KOSUI cover agriculture and rural affairs for Harvest Public Media for KOSU in Oklahoma.
I grew up listening to KOSU and joined the public radio station in 2023 as a corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative that places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the country.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, I earned a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism from Oklahoma State University in 2022. After graduating from the university, I covered the impact of population growth as a Report for America corps member for KUAF public radio in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
You can reach me at anna@kosu.org.
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This year, wildfires have already burned thousands of acres in the Great Plains. Dry conditions and unseasonably warm temperatures have optimal settings for wildfires, and some experts say they are seeing more intense fires. -
Raising roosters is big business. Now a push to ease penalties for cockfighting is ruffling feathersCockfighting, the practice of fighting roosters, has been around for centuries. In the U.S. it’s a federal crime and illegal in all 50 states. But in Oklahoma, there’s an effort to lower the penalties for cockfighting that breeders say simply protects their right to raise roosters, while animal rights groups are calling foul.
