At 10:00 a.m. in the Pape Room, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, The Phoenix New-Times and The (Spokane) Spokesman - Review will both receive Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism in the News Organization Category, while an editor of a budding community college newspaper in Western Massachusetts who challenged her college president will receive the award in the Collegiate Media category.  A panel discussion among the winners will follow.  The Pape Room is located at 1430 Johnson Lane on the UO Campus. 

At 4:00 p.m. in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, presents ""Participatory Media:  challenges to the Conventions of Journalism" as the school's thirty-second annual Ruhl Lecturer.  Schaffer, former business editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and one of the nation’s leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. She left daily journalism in 1994 to lead pioneering journalism initiatives in the areas of civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism, and citizen media ventures. She launched J-Lab in 2002 at the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies to engage people in important public issues. As a federal court reporter, she helped write a series that won freedom for a man wrongly convicted of five murders. The stories led to the civil rights convictions of six Philadelphia homicide detectives and won several national journalism awards, including the 1978 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service.