The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College will present this year’s Izzy Awards “for outstanding achievement in independent media” during an online award ceremony on Tuesday, April 26. The 6:30 p.m. EDT event will include speeches from the honorees, followed by a Q&A session.
Register here to attend the virtual ceremony.
This year’s Izzy Award is being shared by nonprofit newsrooms in New York and Chicago for exposing corruption that harmed low-income residents of those cities; independent journalist Jenni Monet for her weekly newsletter giving voice to Native American communities; and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, for its Pandora Papers exposé.
- An investigation by Greg B. Smith of THE CITY, based in New York, uncovered how 5,000 public housing apartments in buildings long ago deemed cleared of contamination contained lead paint.
- Two Chicago newsrooms — Better Government Association and Block Club Chicago — undertook trailblazing reporting on corruption in the healthcare system and its damaging impacts on low-income people.
- With her newsletter Indigenously, Jenni Monet explores the beauty of conservation and community from her travels in Alaska, and reports on the history of violence and injustice against Native Americans.
- The Pandora Papers investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists documented numerous stories that revealed the secretive system that allows the world’s rich to hide money and dodge taxes.
The Izzy Award is named for I. F. “Izzy” Stone., the dissident journalist who launched I. F. Stone’s Weekly in 1953 and questioned McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, racial injustice, and government deceit.
Launched in 2008 within the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, the Park Center for Independent Media is a center for the study of journalism-oriented media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations.
More information on the award winners.