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Andrea Eger’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Andrea Eger has worked at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Okla., since 1999, primarily covering education at the local level from 2000-2009 and expanding into education-related state policy matters beginning in 2010. Since 2015, she has also taken on special projects about high-profile murder cases and investigated a shocking series of unnatural deaths in state-run nursing homes for veterans. All along, she has covered the many criminal cases that arise in public school settings and pitched in on bre…
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Awards
See all 19 awards →Society of Professional Journalists Award
2014 - Investigative Reporting by an Individual, first place
An investigation that found a top-ranking local school administrator had falsified her resume exposed serious holes in educator credential checks at both the local and state levels. That work ultimately resulted in permanent changes in the way Tulsa Public Schools and the Oklahoma State Department of Education handle teacher and administrator licensing.
Society of Professional Journalists Award
2017 - General News Reporting
First place, with fellow Tulsa World reporter Barbara Hoberock, on breaking a story about the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' handling of a non-natural death of a nursing home patient who died in a state home while his body was infested with maggots. This story prompted a major Tulsa World investigation of other non-natural deaths in state-run nursing homes for veterans.
Education Writers Association
2017 - Beat reporting
First runner-up for this national contest for education beat reporting at a General News Outlet (Print or Online), medium-sized staff.
Inland Press Association
2017 - Community Leadership Award
First place, with side bar by Tulsa World colleague Curtis Killman. This award "was created to encourage newspapers to use their resources of news coverage, editorial support and staff involvement to make their communities better places in which to live and work." (All circulations categories combined)
Inland Press Association
2017 - Investigative reporting
First place, with side bar by Tulsa World colleague Curtis Killman. Circulation 50,000 to 99,999.
Investigative Reporters and Editors Award
2017 - PRINT/ONLINE — Division IV
Finalist. Judges’ comments: The investigation of deaths and rape at a local veterans nursing home hit all the right notes: true outrage, an attempt to keep deaths quiet and exposure of neglect.
BH Media Group Oracle Awards
2018 - Bristol Investigative Journalism Award
The Bristol award presented to Eger is intended to recognize “an outstanding investigative journalist (or team) who uses in-depth reporting and powerful storytelling to shed light on unknown problems and help identify solutions.” Among Eger’s projects that helped win her the honor were ones exposing the shoddy care going on at the state’s veterans centers and a rape investigation and scandal involving Bixby High School football players.
Inland Press Association
2019 - Investigative Journalism
First place, with colleague Curtis Killman, for reporting on questionable practices and law enforcement investigations into the largest operator of virtual charter schools in Oklahoma.
Great Plains Journalism Awards
2019 - News Package
First place, Tulsa World Staff, for in-depth coverage of and follow-up investigative reporting after a break in one of Oklahoma’s most notorious cold cases. Judges' comments: "(Reporters) Andrea Eger and Tim Stanley weave a page-turning narrative that respects what Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible and their families went through. They respectfully recall the lives the girls lived, chillingly profile the suspects and unsparingly ask why investigators dismissed tips and blew off people who were trying to help.”
Inland Press Association
2019 - Community Leadership and Explanatory Journalism
First place in both categories, Tulsa World staff, for "Breaking the Cycle" an eight-day series on Adverse Childhood Experiences. Oklahoma leads the nation in childhood trauma. We delved into how this affects our state and what can we do about it.