Democracy Now! Announces 2022 Izzy Award Winners

On April 5, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman announced the recipients of the 2022 Izzy Award. This annual award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” is named after dissident journalist I.F. Stone. This year’s Izzy will be shared by nonprofit newsrooms The City in New York, as well as Chicago’s Better Government Association and Block […]

Oct. 3 -The Crisis of the Media-Industrial Complex: Nermeen Shaikh of Democracy Now!

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.18″ text_font=”||||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective. Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of “The Present […]

Izzy Award 2009

The inaugural Izzy Award was presented in 2009 to blogger Glenn Greenwald and Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman.