Filmmaker Laura Poitras was the recipient of the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence, awarded each year by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of “Democracy Now!,” also received a special I.F. Stone lifetime achievement award. The two journalists were honored at a ceremony at Harvard University on February 5, 2015.
Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Award presentation to Amy Goodman
Introduction: Myra MacPherson, author of “All Governments Lie! The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone” and a member of the I.F. Stone Medal Selection Committee
Goodman’s remarks
Medal presentation to Laura Poitras
Introduction by Bill Kovach, chair of the I.F. Stone Medal Selection Committee and former curator of the Nieman Foundation