Tamara Payne
Former Editor, Newsday; NABJ Founder, and
Co-Author, Senior Researcher and Daughter
Les Payne (1941-2018), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, foreign correspondent and editor at Newsday. A founder and past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Payne also wrote an award-winning syndicated column.
Tamara Payne is Les Payne’s daughter and served as his principal researcher. She lives in New York.