The Izzy Award

Mother Jones Wins!

March 7, 2013 - The nonprofit news organization Mother Jones has been named winner of the fifth annual Izzy Award, presented by the Park Center for Independent Media. The outlet was honored for publishing “major, timely stories and investigations throughout 2012 that had significant public impact.” Full release here.

Citing its “persistence in bringing clarity to complex subjects and in shining light into the dark corners of American politics and society,” the Izzy Award judges honored Mother Jones for “continuing the legacy of Izzy Stone.”

The Izzy Award ceremony will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 7:30 p.m. in Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall (Campus Center). Mother Jones Washington bureau chief DAVID CORN, publisher STEVE KATZ, and environmental reporter KATE SHEPPARD (IC Park School of Communications alumna) will speak. All are welcome to this free event.

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The Izzy Award is named after 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 "outstanding achievement in independent media," the Izzy Award goes to an independent outlet, journalist, or producer for contributions to our culture, politics, or journalism created outside traditional corporate structures. The judges are communications professor and author Robert W. McChesney; Linda Jue, executive director and editor at 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.

The fourth annual Izzy Award was presented in 2012 to Democracy Now! correspondent SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS and to the CENTER FOR MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY for its work on "ALEC Exposed." More info here. 

The third annual  Izzy Award was presented in 2011 to independent journalist ROBERT SCHEER and independent magazine CITY LIMITS. More info here.

The second annual Izzy Award was presented in 2010 to independent journalist JEREMY SCAHILL. More info here.

The inaugural Izzy Award was presented in 2009 to blogger GLENN GREENWALD and Democracy Now! host and executive producer AMY GOODMAN. More info here.