Ithaca College

The annual honor for outstanding achievement in independent media — named after legendary journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is a project of the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM). This year’s Izzy Award will be given for work published, broadcast or posted in 2017 by an independent media outlet, journalist or producer. The award may relate to a single piece or a body of work. Journalists, academics and the public at large may submit nominations by the January 11, 2018, deadline. The judges may also nominate. The winner will be announced early next spring, with an award ceremony to follow.

Nominations should be submitted via a brief e-mail (250 words or less) that includes supporting web links (no more than six) and/or attached materials to Brandy Hawley at bhawley@ithaca.edu.

Past winners include Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, Naomi Klein, John Carlos Frey, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, and independent outlets such as City Limits and Mother Jones.

For the tenth year in a row, the judges will be PCIM director Jeff Cohen, Linda Jue of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, and professor/author Robert W. McChesney. 

In 1953, during the height of the anti-communist witch hunts, Stone launched “I. F. Stone’s Weekly,” through which he challenged McCarthyism, official deceit, war and racism. A documentary feature was released this year – “All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone” – that features many past Izzy Award winners. PCIM houses a unique collection of mementos from Stone, who died in 1989. 

Launched in 2008 and located within Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications, PCIM is a national center focusing on media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. For more information on the Izzy Award, visit www.ithaca.edu/indy/izzy.