Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism

The Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism were created at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism & Communications in 1999. In the words of the school's dean, Tim Gleason, the awards were created "to honor the journalist of integrity and character who reports with insight and clarity in the face of political or economic pressures and to reward performance that inspires public trust in the media."

Winners

2006

*Kurt Eichenwald of the "New York Times" for his investigative reporting of & involvement with Justin Berry, a self-described victim of Internet predators.

2005

*Kevin Sites, for his war reporting.
*"The Denver Post", for its handling of the anonymity of the accuser of Kobe Bryant.
*"The State Press" of Arizona State University, for its management of a dispute with a donor.

2004

*Virginia Gerst, for her management of a conflict with the Pioneer Press regarding a negative restaurant review.
*Bakersfield Californian for its reporting on the stabbing death of a government attorney.
*Joel Elliott of Toccoa Falls College, for his role in exposing dishonesty in the resume of the college's president.

2003

*Paul DeMain of News from Indian Country, for his investigation into the 1975 death of Anna Mae Aquash.
*The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, for its reportage on shortcomings in the state's Department of Children and Families.
*The Mount Hood Community College "Advocate", for editorial response to a proposed bond measure.

2002

*Jay Harris, for resisting corporate pressure to cut staff at the "San Jose Mercury News".
*Voice of America, for airing an interview with Mullah Omar over opposition from the United States Department of State.
*KOMU-TV in Missouri, for adhering to a policy banning political symbols in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2001

*David Offer, editor of "Stars and Stripes", for resigning to protest publisher censorship.
*D'Anne Hamilton and Nellie Moore, for protesting an editorial decision.
*"The Jackson Sun" for its historical coverage of voting rights demonstrations in 1960, including an examination of why the paper did not cover the events at the time.

2000

*Individual staff of the Los Angeles Times, for protesting the publisher's profit-sharing agreement with Staples Center.
*The "Union Democrat" of Sonora, California, for refusing to publish a story based solely on anonymous sources.
*Erin Becker and Corey Lewis of Western Washington University's "The Western Front", for refusing to divulge the source of photographs taken by Animal Liberation Front members during an act of laboratory vandalism.

External links

* [http://payneawards.uoregon.edu/ Payne Awards] School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon