Ten dollars. A whole year. Everything we have ever run.
Every story is free to everyone for 14 days. A membership keeps it open after that, adds the featured investigations the day they run, and opens four years of reporting on Oklahoma courts, agencies and the rooms nobody else sits in.
One price, one level. There is nothing above it to upgrade to.
What it opens
Five things, and they stay open for as long as you are a member.
The pieces that took the longest. The long investigation, the interview nobody else got, the story built on a records fight that ran for months. Members read them the day they publish. Everybody else waits.
Everything published since 2022. Two weeks free to everybody, then it moves into the archive. Members read it this week and in five years, when somebody finally asks what the agency said at the time.
Orders, filings, agenda packets, records responses and denial letters, posted alongside the stories they came from. The reporting is our reading of them. The documents are the documents.
Four years of court and agency reporting, searchable by name, county, case number and agency. Useful in ways that are hard to explain until the day you need it.
Members submit their own events. Meetings, forums, festivals, fundraisers, openings. It runs on the site, in the weekly newsletter and on Facebook. Submit an event.
Ten dollars a year
Less than a dollar a month. Roughly what one certified copy of a court record costs, and we pull a lot of those.
Featured stories the day they run, the archive, the documents, full search and event posting. One level, one price. Renews once a year until you say otherwise, and you can stop it from any email we send.
Memberships open soon. Put your address on the newsletter and you will hear the day they do, along with everything we file between now and then.
What stays free, permanently
Every story, no wall, no account. Send it anywhere and post it anywhere.
Charging to read what we got wrong would be an interesting business model and a poor one.
If it bears on somebody’s physical safety, it is outside the wall for good.
Public meetings are public. The stream and the replays cost nothing and never will.
One email a week with everything we filed. Free, and it stays free.
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The weekly newsletter. Costs nothing, asks nothing. Sign up here.
Ten dollars a year. Featured stories on the day they run, the archive, the documents, search across four years of reporting, and event posting.
You can be a subscriber without being a member, and most of our readers are.
What your ten dollars buys
Court records. Certified copies, transcript orders, PACER fees, and the requests that come back as a denial letter and a bill anyway. Documents are the whole method here and they are not free.
It also buys gas. Seventy-seven counties, and the hearing worth sitting through is never in the nearest one.
Everybody reads the same journalism, held to the same standards. Nothing is written for members or about them, and nobody’s ten dollars moves a story an inch. Our editorial standards say so plainly.
A for-profit newsroom
The Oklahoma Post is a company, not a charity. A membership is not a donation and you cannot deduct it on your taxes. Anyone telling you a ten dollar subscription is a write-off is doing your taxes wrong.
If you own a business, look at advertising instead. An ad is a business expense, a membership is not, and an ad puts your name in front of readers where a membership does not. It helps us just as much. See what it costs.
Memberships renew automatically at the then-current rate until you cancel. Cancel from any email we send you, or through the contact form under the publisher desk. Full terms are in the Subscription and Advertising Sales Agreement. The Oklahoma Post LLC.