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- Born
- 1957
- Works
- 16
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- Democracy now!
- Standing up to the madness
- Getting Haiti right this time
- En La Cama Con El Enemigo
- The Silenced Majority
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Acting · Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement, Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara, and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Since 1996, she has been the main host of Democracy Now!, a progressive global news program…
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- Steal This Story, Please! — Self2026
- I Get Knocked Down — Self2023
- Post Truth Times2018
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media — Self2018
- Risk — Self2017
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone — Self - Host and Executive Producer, Democracy Now!2016
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Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Since 1996, Goodman has been the main host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program that she co-founded; it is broadcast daily and syndicated nationally on radio, television, and the Internet, including transcription. On the award-winning program, Goodman elevates voices and perspectives rarely covered in US corporate media. Highlights of Goodman's investigative journalism career include coverage of the Santa Cruz massacre and the East Timor independence movement, the Chevron Corporation's assistance to armed forces in Nigeria, the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests and anti-globalization activism, the American political prisoner in Peru Lori Berenson, and the US-backed 2004 Haitian coup d'état.
She has received awards for her work, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special achievement in independent media". In 2012, Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace".
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