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April 3, 2019

2019 Izzy Awards Honor Earth Island Journal, Laura Flanders, Aaron Maté & Dave Lindorff
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And the 2019 Izzy Award "for outstanding achievement in independent
media" will be shared between four recipients: Earth Island Journal and
journalists Laura Flanders, Aaron Maté and Dave Lindorff.

Earth Island Journal's issue on "Women and the Environment" highlighted
the often-ignored connections between environmental rights and women's
rights.

Journalist and TV host Laura Flanders is being honored for her work
exploring alternative political, social and economic models, and her
recent reporting on the rise of the Labour movement in the U.K.

Independent journalist Aaron Maté-formerly a Democracy Now!
producer-consistently challenged the media's coverage of the
Russia-Trump campaign collusion story, known as "Russiagate," in his
reporting for The Nation.

Dave Lindorff's investigation into the Pentagon's accounting practices
revealed it has been fabricating numbers in its annual financial reports
to Congress, obscuring the Pentagon's actual spending and making the
agency unaccountable for its budget. Lindorff is the founder of the
alternative news site This Cant Be Happening.net.

The Izzy Award is presented by the Park Center for Independent Media at
Ithaca College and is named for legendary dissident journalist I.F.
Stone.


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