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...
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Izzy Award 2019
The 11th Izzy Award honored journalists Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff and Aaron Maté and publication Earth Island Journal.
Todd Miller Comes To IC This Fall
Todd Miller, an award winning journalist will speak at Ithaca College on October 22, 2019 at 5:30 pm. The venue is Emerson Suites at Ithaca College. EMPIRE OF BORDERS “Joining meticulous documentation and vivid on-the-ground research in multiple border hot spots...
The 2019 Izzy Award happening April 15
Izzy Award to Be Shared By Earth Island Journal and Journalists Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff and Aaron Maté BY DAVE MALEY, APRIL 3, 2019 Award Ceremony will be held on April 15. The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced...
Making Sense of the Elections Forum
In an interactive public forum moderated by Park Center for Independent Media director Raza Rumi, IC Faculty members interpreted the election results highlighting the key issues that were raised during the political campaigns. The forum addressed key questions -- what...
Speaker Series: Brandon Smith
Brandon Smith, October 2018 Independent journalist Brandon Smith gave a public lecture, " What the traditional Chicago media missed in the Laquan McDonald case." Brandon Smith spoke on the power of independent journalism in exposing police brutality and racial...
PCIM Hires Raza Rumi as New Director
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN IC NEWS BY DAN VERDEROSA, SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Pakistani journalist, author and policy analyst Raza Rumi has been named the new director of the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM). The center was launched in the Roy H. Park School of...
Jeff Cohen Steps Down as PCIM Director
Jeff Cohen was the founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media and Endowed Chair / Associate Professor from 2008-2018. The center’s mission is to study the growing independent media sector, encourage career paths inside independent outlets and examine...
Speaker Series: Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower, September 2015 The prolific author, radio commentator, humorist, & populist's talk: "Against the Current: How Indy Media & Activists Can Challenge Corporate Control" Jim Hightower, the progressive Texas populist whose newsletter Hightower...
Speaker Series: Robert W. McChesney
Robert W. McChesney, October 2013 Robert W. McChesney is an expert on the political economy of communication, media policy, and 20th- and 21st-century media history. Robert W. McChesney, prolific author, media policy expert, and the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the...