Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman
Born (1957-04-13) April 13, 1957 (age 67)
EducationCollege of the Atlantic
Harvard University (BA)
AwardsRight Livelihood Award
Career
ShowDemocracy Now!
Station1,524[1]
NetworkPacifica Radio
StyleInvestigative journalism

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957)[2] 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 broadcast daily on radio, television and the Internet. 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". She is the author of six books, including the 2012 The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope,[3] and the 2016 Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.[4] In 2016, she was criminally charged with a riot in connection with her coverage of protests of the Dakota Access pipeline.[5] This action was condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The charges were dismissed by the North Dakota district judge on October 17, 2016.[6]

In 2014 she was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation.

  1. ^ "Locate A Station". DemocracyNow.org. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  2. ^ "Amy Goodman Biography". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. April 6, 2018. Retrieved January 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference silencedmajority was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Goodman, Amy; Goodman, David; Denis, Moynihan (April 12, 2016). Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 384. ISBN 978-1501123580.
  5. ^ Grueskin, Caroline (October 13, 2016). "Defense attorney questions prosecutor in Amy Goodman case". Bismarck Tribune. Retrieved October 14, 2016.
  6. ^ Merlan, Anna. "Judge Rejects Proposed Riot Charges Against Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman". Jezebel. Archived from the original on August 26, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2016.

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