Park Center for Independent Media
The Izzy Award
2008 Izzy Award Winners:
AMY GOODMAN and GLENN GREENWALD
The first annual Izzy Award for "special achievement in independent media" was presented March 31, 2009, to blogger Glenn Greenwald and Democracy Now! host and executive producer Amy Goodman. Read press release. Roughly 800 people attended the award ceremony at Ithaca’s State Theatre – including Izzy Stone’s son Jeremy, who spoke briefly.
Bill Moyers Journal features Izzy Award winners (4/3/09)
Video of Glenn and Amy acceptance speeches
Text of Jeremy Stone's speech at Izzy Award ceremony
Official printed program
Listen to audio of full ceremony
Photos
The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I. F. Stone, who launched I. F. Stone's Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, McCarthyism, and racial bigotry. Presented annually for "special achievement in independent media," the Izzy Award will go to an independent outlet, journalist, or producer for contributions to our culture, politics, or journalism created outside traditional corporate structures.
This year's judges are communications professor and author Robert W. McChesney; Linda Jue, director and executive editor of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism; and Jeff Cohen, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College.
For more information on Izzy Stone, see Jeff Cohen's column or the official www.ifstone.org website or a June ‘09 Democracy Now! program devoted to his life.