The Edge
Countering the mainstream at the Park Center for Independent Media.
Izzy Award
Izzy Award 2020
The 12th honored journalist Matt Taibbi, Puerto Rican outlet Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, and publication News Inside.
Izzy Award 2019
The 11th Izzy Award honored journalists Laura Flanders, Dave Lindorff and Aaron Maté and publication Earth Island Journal.
Izzy Award 2018
The 10th annual Izzy Award was presented in 2018 to journalists Lee Fang, Sharon Lerner, Dahr Jamail and Todd Miller.
Izzy Award 2017
The ninth annual Izzy Award honored in 2017 journalists Shane Bauer, Ari Berman, Seth Freed Wessler, and “America Divided.”
Events
Disinformation Nation: Critical Media Literacy for Election 2024
Join media scholar Dr. Nolan Higdon and Distinguished Director of PCIM Professor Mickey Huff in conversation about the state of our free press, hyper-partisan media, and a distracted and divided public as we approach the 2024 election next month. Tuesday, October 15,...
Banned Books Week: Freed Between the Lines
Join Mickey Huff, the new Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media, in conversation with professors, librarians, and activists on combatting book bans and protecting intellectual freedom. Enjoy light refreshments and stay for a Q&A with the...
Mickey Huff Joins as New Distinguished Director of the Park Center For Independent Media
Mickey Huff has accepted a position as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center of Independent Media (PCIM), based at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. In addition, he will also serve as Professor of Journalism at the College’s Roy H. Park School of...
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Student Work
2022 PCIM Interns Work at a Variety of Independent Institutions
Desiree Holz (Journalism, ’23) is the current marketing and public relations intern at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. Desiree’s main responsibility this summer has been to create and manage the museum’s TikTok. She has been helping to write press...
2021 PCIM Interns Celebrate Summer Accomplishments
Desiree Holz (’23) is a Journalism major who spent the summer interning with The Ithaca Voice. Over the course of her internship, Desiree gained more than 10 bylines covering the labor shortage, new city planning developments, and other stories affecting the Ithaca...
The Indy Brief
The Indy Brief: Izzy Award Winners on Dark Money & Big Oil | 4/27
April 21, 2023 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of stories from writers and journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines The Izzy Award 4/27 Izzy Award...
Meet the 2023 Izzy Award Winners
March 31, 2023 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief. Subscribe for a weekly selection of stories from writers and journalists operating outside traditional corporate systems. Subscribe The Headlines The Izzy Award The 2023 Izzy Award...