Democracy Now! Announces the 2024 Izzy Award Winners

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! announces the winners of the 2024 Izzy Award.

The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by nonprofit news outlet In These Times for economic justice stories that centered workers; journalist Mohammed El-Kurd for powerful reporting from Palestine; Lynzy Billing for chronicling the American military’s environmental devastation in Afghanistan; and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway for their joint investigative series “Missing In Chicago,” which exposed police malpractice.

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. An award ceremony will be scheduled for late April 2024.

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