Louisa McCune
Activity Sheet

Biography from Oklahoma Today Web Page
Before joining Oklahoma Today in November 1997, McCune was a contributing editor for The American Benefactor. She has also worked at Worth, George, Harper's Magazine, Mirabella, and New York. In 1996, she was assistant editor on Fool's for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater, written by Harper's contributor Gene Lyons. A contributing editor for Green: The Magazine for Personal Finance (edited by Esquire staff writer and columnist Ken Kurson), her articles have appeared in Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel and Reader's Digest. 
Under her guidance, Oklahoma Today has won several awards, including the prestigious Wilbur Award, given by the Religion Communicators Council, Folio: magazines 1999 Editorial Excellence award in the regional magazine category, and Folio:'s 1998 silver Ozzie for the Air & Space issue. In September 1999, she was named one of Thirty Under 30 leading the publishing world today by the Magazine Publishers of America and Folio:. She is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and serves on the board of the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers.
Born and raised in Enid, Oklahoma, Louisa graduated from San Francisco State University in 1992. She previously worked at the Enid News and Eagle and for Evergreen Helicopters on a project to eradicate West African river blindness. She is a licensed private pilot and has traveled extensively throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. In 1991, she co-produced an eighty-minute documentary about Thailand, and in 1994-95 she co-created Newsmakers: Live with the Editor, a television talk show produced by the Enid News and Eagle. She also has appeared on CNNfn, OETA's Writing Out Loud, and Cox Communications' Read All About It and Mayor's Magazine.

You may email Louise McCune at mccune@oklahomatoday.com

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