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Winners to Attend the 17th Annual Izzy Award Celebration at Ithaca College
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College is honored to announce that this year’s Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” will be shared by three journalists and two outlets that undertook path-breaking and in-depth reporting...
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