The Izzy Award

_{The 2012 Izzy Award ceremony was a wonderful event honoring Sharif Abdel Kouddous and the Center for Media and Democracy (led by Lisa Graves) – with previous Izzy Winner Amy Goodman participating in the proceedings.  More here.}     

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 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.