The eight annual Izzy Award will be presented by the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) on Wednesday, April 6, 7:00 p.m., in Park Hall Auditorium. Simultaneously, the I.F. Stone Hall of Fame will welcome Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!
In a year rich with exceptional journalism from non-corporate outlets, the Izzy Award judges chose to honor Inside Climate News for its series “Exxon: The Road Not Taken” and independent journalists Jamie Kalven and Brandon Smith for exposing the official cover-up of the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in Chicago. The Izzy Award for “outstanding achievement in independent media” is named in honor of the late I.F. “Izzy” Stone, the dissident journalist who launched I.F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and challenged McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, racial injustice and government deceit.
Amy Goodman will enter the I.F. Stone Hall of Fame, an occasional honor reserved for those who have already won the Izzy Award and who continue to produce journalism that would earn them the award again and again. “Amy Goodman’s tenacious reporting day after day and year after year has made her one of the premier journalists of our era,” says Jeff Cohen, PCIM director and Izzy Award judge. “As the inspirational leader of Democracy Now! — celebrating its 20th year — she is also peerless in showcasing the topnotch journalism of others.” Goodman shared the first Izzy Award in 2009 with Glenn Greenwald.
Other previous winners of the Izzy Award are Naomi Klein, David Sirota, John Carlos Frey, Nick Turse, Mother Jones, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Center for Media and Democracy/“ALEC Exposed,” Robert Scheer, and City Limits. Amy Goodman joins prior I.F. Stone Hall of Fame inductees Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill.
Read more about the winners and their extraordinary journalism here.
Based in the Roy H. Park School of Communications the Park Center for Independent Media is a national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems. For more information, visit ithaca.edu/indy/izzy or contact Jeff Cohen at jcohen@ithaca.edu.
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