Izzy Award 2024 Honors Human Rights and Economic Justice Reporting

On April 23, The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College presented the 2024 Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” to nonprofit news outlet In These Times for economic justice stories that centered workers; journalist Mohammed El-Kurd for powerful reporting from Palestine; Lynzy Billing with New Lines Magazine and Inside Climate News 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.
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