The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has awarded the I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award to Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman. Filmmaker Laura Poitras, director of the Academy Award-nominated CITIZENFOUR, was also honored with the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

In presenting the lifetime achievement award to Amy, the nominating committee stated, “As a journalist and independent media advocate, Amy Goodman exemplifies the ethos of I.F. Stone. By insulating herself against commercial pressures, she has fought vigilantly for a free press and has ensured that her reporting would always be done in service of speaking truth to power."  Click here to watch Amy's acceptance speech.

Established in 2008, the I.F Stone Medal honors the life of investigative journalist I.F. Stone and is presented annually to a journalist whose work captures the spirit of journalistic independence, integrity and courage that characterized I.F. Stone’s Weekly, published 1953-1971.

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