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American journalist (1957-)

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Amy Goodman is an American columnist, radio producer, writer, and television producer. Born on April 13, 1957, in Washington, D.C., she was educated at Radcliffe College. Her notable work includes Democracy Now!, and she has written for The Nation. She speaks English and Spanish.

Goodman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received the Right Livelihood Award, the George Polk Award, the Gandhi Peace Award, and the EFF Award. Her other works include Standing up to the madness, Getting Haiti right this time, En La Cama Con El Enemigo, and The Silenced Majority.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1957
Works
16

Top works

  • 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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Film & TV

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…

Known for

  • 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
  • Programming the Nation? — Self2011
  • Crude — Self - Democracy Now2009
  • The End of America — Self (archive footage)2008
  • Massacre: The Story of East Timor — Amy Goodman2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1957
bandleaderbig bandclarinetistclassicalcomposerjazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,379
Total plays
8,756

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Amy Goodman b. April 13, 1957 in Washington, D.C. is an American progressive broadcast journalist and author. A 1984 graduate of Harvard University, Goodman is best known as the principal host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program, where she has been described by the Los Angeles Times as "radio's voice of the disenfranchised left".[1] Coverage of the peace and human rights movements — and support of the independent media — are the hallmarks of her work. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Am

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Quotes

  • Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. It is the best reason I know to carry our pens, cameras, and microphones into our own communities and out to the wider world.
  • We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
  • We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.
  • In 1981, the KKK's Grand Wizard claimed that his greatest act "was engineering the bombing of a left-wing radio station," because he understood how dangerous Pacifica was.
  • It's still much the same. On any given day, you can listen to the news on CNN or National Public Radio, then tune in to a Pacifica station. You would think you were hearing reports from different Planets. We inhabit the same planet, but we see it through different lenses.
  • Why has Democracy Now! grown so quickly? Because of the deafening silence in the mainstream media around the issues-and the people that matter most. People are now confronting the most important issues of the millennium: war and peace, life and death. Yet who is shaping the discourse? Generals, corporate executives, and government officials.

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Key facts

Born
( 1957-04-13 ) April 13, 1957 (age 69) , Bay Shore, New York , U.S.
Education
College of the Atlantic , Radcliffe College ( BA )
Awards
Right Livelihood Award
Show
Democracy Now!
Network
Pacifica Radio
Style
Investigative journalism

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Encyclopedic overview

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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