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March 10, 2011

Robert Scheer, City Limits Named Izzy Award Recipients 
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And in media news, journalist and author Robert Scheer and the New
York-based magazine "City Limits" have been named the shared winners of
the third 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. The Park Center for
Independent Media at Ithaca College cited Sheer for being "a beacon of
journalistic independence who exposes both major parties on issues
foreign and domestic, while giving voice to the disenfranchised", and
City Limits for providing "a model of in-depth urban journalism that
examines systemic problems, challenges assumptions and points toward
solutions."



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