Izzy Award
Izzy Award 2025
The 17th honored Steve Mellon and Maximillian Alvarez, Jewish Currents, and San Francisco Public Press.
Izzy Award 2024
The 16th honored In These Times, Mohammed El-Kurd, Lynzy Billing, and Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Sarah Conway.
Izzy Award 2023
The winners of the 15th annual Izzy Award were The Lever, Mississippi Free Press, Carlos Ballesteros, and Liza Gross.
Izzy Award 2022
The 14th honored The City, Block Club Chicago, Indigenously, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Events
Winners to Attend the 17th Annual Izzy Award Celebration at Ithaca College
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College is honored to announce that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by three journalists and two outlets that undertook...
The Deepest Fake News: Exploring the Explanatory Vacuums of Establishment Media Coverage
Featuring Dr. John Collins, St. Lawrence University (Emeritus Professor of Global Studies) Hosted by Professors Mickey Huff and Todd Schack, Journalism and PCIM Tuesday March 4th, Textor 102 10:50 A.M. to 12:05 P.M. Ithaca College, Free While the issue of “fake...
Nominations Now Open for Annual “Izzy Award” for Independent Media
The Izzy Award will celebrate its 17th year this coming spring, and nominations are officially open for work produced during the 2024 calendar year. The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College (PCIM) will again grant this honor — named after...
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Student Work
PCIM Sponsors 10 Students in Summer Internships
This summer, PCIM is excited to sponsor 10 Ithaca College students in their internships at independent news outlets and nonprofits across the country. Our interns will work at a variety of institutions, both new and familiar to PCIM. Students will use these...
PCIM Interns Hone Journalistic Skills at Independent Outlets and Nonprofits
This summer, we were pleased to sponsor 10 Ithaca College students in their internships at independent news outlets and nonprofits across the country. The students, from various areas of study, found opportunities to develop skills and push for new ways to apply them...
PCIM Newsletter
PCIM Newsletter | Summer 2025
On April 30th, the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College honored this year’s Izzy Award winners at Ithaca College “for outstanding achievement in independent media.”
The Indy Brief Returns!
We’re back! Much has changed since PCIM's last newsletter, and there is a lot to report. Last summer Ithaca College welcomed Mickey Huff as PCIM’s new Distinguished Director and Professor of Journalism in the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Huff is also director...