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March 7, 2013

Mother Jones Wins Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media 
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The nonprofit news magazine Mother Jones has been named the recipient of
the fifth annual Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent
Media. The Izzy Award is named after legendary maverick journalist I.F.
Stone, who launched I.F. Stone's Weekly in 1953 and exposed government
deception, Mc Carthyism and racial bigotry. The Park Center for
Independent Media said it chose Mother Jones for publishing "major,
timely stories and investigations throughout 2012 that had significant
public impact." The magazine shook up last year's presidential campaign
when Washington Bureau Chief David Corn released the infamous video
showing Republican hopeful Mitt Romney dismissing 47 percent of the U.S.
electorate as people "dependent upon government, who believe that they
are victims." In a recent interview, Romney said the video's release was
partially to blame for his loss.

 

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