The Edge
Countering the mainstream at the Park Center for Independent Media.
Izzy Award
Izzy Award 2023
This year’s Izzy Award will be shared by 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.
Izzy Award 2021
The 13th annual Izzy Award was presented in 2021 to journalists Tim Schwab and Liliana Segura, and outlet Truthout.
Izzy Award 2020
The 12th honored journalist Matt Taibbi, Puerto Rican outlet Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, and publication News Inside.
Events
Izzy Award for Independent Media to Be Shared by The Lever, Mississippi Free Press, and Journalists Carlos Ballesteros and Liza Gross
Award ceremony will be held at the end of April. 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...
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
Meet the 2023 Izzy Award Winners
March 31, 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 2023 Izzy Award...
The Indy Brief: Explore AI, Voter Suppression with Upcoming Film Festival
March 3, 2023 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of news stories from journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines Upcoming Events Finger Lakes Environmental...