Veteran Oklahoma journalist joins R-J Washington Bureau
Myers, former Tulsa World reporter, to start Monday
Veteran reporter Jim Myers will join the Review-Journal’s Washington Bureau on Monday.
Myers is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and has worked as a journalist for nearly four decades, starting at the Enid News and Eagle in 1976. He has been an editor and reporter, covering topics such as the federal government, education and transportation. The Tonkawa, Okla. native is also a member of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame and a U.S. Army veteran, where he served two years with the 32nd Air Defense in Germany.
He covered the Oklahoma state capitol for the Tulsa World, where he helped organize reports on statewide political races and national political conventions. He was that newspaper’s Washington bureau from 1990 to 2012.
“Government reporting has been a major focus for my three decades in journalism,” Myers said. “I am looking forward to continuing that type of coverage.”
Myers served in the Washington bureau for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a year, as well doing freelance work for a number of news outlets across the U.S. and in England. Before joining the Review-Journal, Myers worked as a reporter for Bloomberg.
Myers is taking over for Steve Tetreault, who left the bureau in September, and will work with Peter Urban, who continues as a Washington bureau staffer under GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Review-Journal. — Myers may be reached at 202-7831760 or jmyers@reviewjournal.com.