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March 24, 2010

Jeremy Scahill Wins Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media
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In media news, independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent
Jeremy Scahill has been named the recipient of the second annual Izzy
Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media. The Izzy Award is
named after legendary maverick journalist I.F. Stone, who launched I.F.
Stone Weekly in 1953 and exposed government deception, Mc Carthyism and
racial bigotry. In announcing the award, the Park Center for Independent
Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College cited Jeremy for “persistence,
independence and journalistic courage in exposing military contractor
abuses and human rights abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan.”



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