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February 26, 2016

InsideClimate News, Jamie Kalven & Brandon Smith Win Izzy Award
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And the nonprofit news organization Inside Climate News and independent
journalists Jamie Kalven and Brandon Smith have won this year's Izzy
Award, presented by the Park Center for Independent Media and named for
legendary dissident journalist I.F. Stone. Inside Climate News won for
its investigative series, "Exxon: The Road Not Taken," which chronicles
how Exxon knew about climate change as early as the 1970s. Jamie Kalven
of the Chicago-based news outlet the Invisible Institute and freelance
journalist Brandon Smith won for their reporting on the Chicago Police
Department's killing of African-American teenager Laquan Mc Donald.
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