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Countering the mainstream at the Park Center for Independent Media.
Izzy Award
Izzy Award 2023
The winners of the 15th annual Izzy Award were The Lever, Mississippi Free Press, Carlos Ballesteros, and Liza Gross.
The Lever: “We Just Won Something Huge”
The Lever’s April 2 newsletter celebrates the outlet’s 2023 Izzy Award win.
Izzy Award 2022
The 14th honored The City, Block Club Chicago, Indigenously, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
Izzy Award 2021
The 13th annual Izzy Award was presented in 2021 to journalists Tim Schwab and Liliana Segura, and outlet Truthout.
Events
4/27 Izzy Award Ceremony Honors The Lever, Mississippi Free Press, and Journalists Carlos Ballesteros and Liza Gross
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PCIM Summer Internship Applications Now Open
Independent Media Summer Internship Opportunity The Park Center for Independent Media sponsors a summer internship program each year aimed at giving justice-oriented students the opportunity to work at independent/progressive media institutions and advocacy nonprofits...
PCIM to Co-Host a Variety of Events with Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is celebrating its 26th year and will host a variety of film screenings, speakers, concerts, and talkbacks. The 2023 edition of the festival runs from March 20 through the first week of April. The festival will be...
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Student Work
2022 PCIM Interns Work at a Variety of Independent Institutions
Desiree Holz (Journalism, ’23) is the current marketing and public relations intern at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Desiree’s main responsibility this summer has been to create and manage the museum’s TikTok. She has been helping to write press...
2021 PCIM Interns Celebrate Summer Accomplishments
Desiree Holz (’23) is a Journalism major who spent the summer interning with The Ithaca Voice. Over the course of her internship, Desiree gained more than 10 bylines covering the labor shortage, new city planning developments, and other stories affecting the Ithaca...
The Indy Brief
The Indy Brief: Motherhood, Tech, and the Debt Ceiling
May 26, 2023 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of stories from writers and journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines The Edge Motherhood, Technology, and...
The Indy Brief: Film Uses Body Cams to Document Police Shooting
May 12, 2023 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of stories from writers and journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines The Izzy Award The 15th Annual Izzy...