And the nonprofit news organization InsideClimate News and independent journalists Jamie Kalven and Brandon Smith have won this year’s Izzy Award, presented by the Park Center for Independent Media and named for legendary dissident journalist I.F. Stone. InsideClimate News won for its investigative series, “Exxon: The Road Not Taken,” which chronicles how Exxon knew about climate change as early as the 1970s. Jamie Kalven of the Chicago-based news outlet the Invisible Institute and freelance journalist Brandon Smith won for their reporting on the Chicago Police Department’s killing of African-American teenager Laquan McDonald.