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Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF)

PCIM at the 29th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Join the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Cinemapolis on March 29th, April 2nd, and April 4th! The 2026 edition of FLEFF runs from March 27 to April 12. For all FLEFF events and locations, visit here.

February 27th: Reporting on Addiction Workshop

Held in partnership with the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca on Friday, February 27, this free, in-person training by Reporting on Addiction and MuckRock will teach you how to tackle community-based reporting on the billions of dollars in opioid settlement funds flowing into New York, its counties, cities and tribal communities. This session […]

The 18th Annual Izzy Award Ceremony & Extended Izzy Fest

The 18th Annual Izzy Award Ceremony Wednesday, April 22nd, 7 P.M. Emerson Suites, Campus Center Ithaca College The ceremony is free and open to the public. It will also be recorded and livestreamed here. The Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” is named after I. F. “Izzy” Stone, the muckraking journalist who launched […]

November 18th: Masterclass with award-wining investigative journalist Will Potter

PCIM is hosting a masterclass with award-wining investigative journalist Will Potter!   Behind the little red barns dotting the landscape and decorating so many of the products we consume is a dangerous threat. Award-wining investigative journalist Will Potter will share from his 10-year investigation of factory farms and rising fascism. In his new book, Little […]

November 12th: Earth’s Greatest Enemy by Abby Martin

PCIM is hosting the screening of this groundbreaking documentary by Abby Martin, followed by Q&A with the journalist and filmmaker herself.   Wednesday, November 12th 4-6:30 pm Park Auditorium Roy H. Park School of Communications Ithaca College Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest […]

October 30th: Grappling with Privacy and AI Literacy

Join PCIM’s guest speakers, Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler for their masterclass: Grappling with Privacy and AI Literacy: Making Sense of Surveillance Technologies and GenAI in Education Thursday, October 30th | 10am Clark Lounge, Campus Center NOLAN HIGDON is the founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and university lecturer at Merrill […]

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 path-breaking and in-depth reporting in 2024. Winners will attend a cerebration for their reporting at Ithaca College April 30. Each of the winners will give a 12–15-minute […]

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 news” has generated significant critical attention over the past decade, there is an ongoing need […]

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 legendary muckraking journalist I. F. “Izzy” Stone — for outstanding achievement in independent media. Each year […]