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THE GLEANER IS COMMITTED TO BEING THE SOURCE FOR ACCURATE, INDEPENDENT INFORMATION. TRUE TO ITS MISSION STATEMENT, THE GLEANER COMPANY HAS WON NUMEROUS AWARDS IN JOURNALISM.
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2001 - Gleaner Company captures the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ) Media of the Year Award for the fifth consecutive year.
The company, which won the top award by unanimous vote, also led the way at the Millennium Media of the Year Awards with four of the 10 individual Certificates of Merit presented for outstanding service to advertising agencies. These went to accounts executives Sandra James, Althea Gayle and Maxine McTaggart, and deputy advertising manager Nordia Craig.
2001 - Gleaner Editorial Cartoonist LasMay wins Dutch Wooden Shoe award from the Netherlands.
2000 - Sports Journalist Tony Becca honoured by the Press Association of Jamaica as the veteran journalist of the year.
2000 - Senior Association Editor Lloyd Williams, is one of four journalists to have been selected by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism to receive the 2000 Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America.
2000 - Gleaner sweeps Press Association of Jamaica awards.
The Gleaner's Senior Associate Editor, Lloyd Williams, has won The Carl Wint Award for the Most Outstanding Journalist, and the Press Association of Jamaica`s Investigative Journalism Award, for his enlightening series on the local cocaine trade.
The Gleaner picked up 10 awards and four certificates for outstanding work in journalism, more awards than any other news medium. This is the second year in a row in which The Gleaner has won the award for Most Outstanding Journalist.
1999 - Gleaner Takes 11 Press Association of Jamaica Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
Senior reporter, McPherse Thompson was named Journalist of the Year for 1999. Mr. Thompson took the top prize after winning the award for Investigative Journalism for his piece, "Debt crosses party lines".
Overall, The Gleaner won 11 awards and a number of certificates in this year's competition. The newspaper's JPSCo overcharge story received an award in the news category.
Grace Cameron, The Gleaner's copy editor, received a human interest award for her pieces on one young woman's struggle with illiteracy and on life after redundancy.