Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Awards: I. F. Stone Prize for Journalistic Independence

From today's Secrecy News bulletin from the Federation of American Scientists:

I.F. Stone (1907-1989), the celebrated journalist and iconoclast who was renowned for his independence, is being remembered in the service of the values he embodied. The Nieman Foundation at Harvard University today announced the establishment of an I.F. Stone Award for journalistic independence, integrity and courage: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/

A richly detailed new website devoted to I.F. Stone provides excerpts from his writings, biographical information, reminiscences and other information: http://www.ifstone.org/

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