Jacob McCleland is a recipient of New America's Weather Eye Award for Local Reporting. McCleland is the news director at KGOU Public Radio based in Norman, Oklahoma. Jacob’s first story for the award will focus on severe weather and emergency communication in a multilingual community located in Oklahoma’s Panhandle. His reporting has been heard on NPR’ Morning Edition and All Things Considered, This American Life, PRI’s The World, and Harvest Public Media.