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Democracy Now!

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Democracy Now!
GenreNews program, current affairs
Running time60 minutes daily (Monday thru Friday)
Home stationWBAI
Syndicates
Hosted by
Produced byMike Burke
Executive producer(s)Amy Goodman
Recording studioNew York City
Original releaseFebruary 19, 1996 (1996-02-19) –
present
Audio formatStereophonic sound
Opening theme"Need to Know" by Incognito
Ending theme"Kid You'll Move Mountains" by Manitoba
Websitewww.democracynow.org

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González,[1][2] and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. Eastern Time, is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.[3]

The program combines news reporting, interviews, investigative journalism and political commentary from a progressive perspective. It documents social movements, struggles for justice, activism challenging corporate power and operates as a watchdog outfit regarding the effects of American foreign policy.[2] Democracy Now! views as its aim to give activists and the citizenry a platform to debate people from "The Establishment".[2] The show is described as progressive[4] by fans as well as critics, but Goodman rejects that label, calling the program a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves".[1] Democracy Now! describes its staff as "includ[ing] some of this country's leading progressive journalists."[5]

Democracy Now Productions, the independent media nonprofit organization that produces Democracy Now!,[2] is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers,[6] and foundations such as the Park Foundation,[7] Ford Foundation,[8] Lannan Foundation,[9] and the J.M. Kaplan Fund.[10][11] It has over $36 million in assets and about a $10 million annual budget.[12] Democracy Now! does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding.[13] The show has become popular on the internet, and from the late 2010s onward, has been involved in pioneering extensive media cooperation in the public sphere across the US.[2]

  1. ^ a b Stelter, Brian (October 23, 2011). "A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles". The New York Times. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d e Cite error: The named reference Marmura99 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Democracy Now Stations". Democracy Now. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  4. ^ Fish 2017, p. 59.
  5. ^ "Staff". Democracy Now!. Archived from the original on March 16, 2018. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Grigoryan, Nune; Suetzl, Wolfgang (2019). "Hybridized political participation". In Atkinson, Joshua D.; Kenix, Linda (eds.). Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 185. ISBN 9781498584357. Archived from the original on October 7, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Park Foundation – Grants Awarded – 1st Quarter 2020 Archived July 15, 2022, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), p. 6.
  8. ^ Ford Foundation Annual Report 2004 Archived February 13, 2021, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), p. 129.
  9. ^ ProPublica – Form 990 Return of Lannan Foundation 2008 Archived October 7, 2023, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), p. 148.
  10. ^ Sourcewatch (June 7, 2013) Kaplan Fund Archived August 5, 2020, at the Wayback Machine – Center for Media and Democracy
  11. ^ Feldman, Bob (2007). Report from the Field: Left Media and Left Think Tanks – Foundation-Managed Protest? Archived September 21, 2020, at the Wayback Machine (PDF), pp. 11, 14.
  12. ^ "Democracy Now Productions (Democracy Now!)". InfluenceWatch. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
  13. ^ "About Democracy Now". Democracy Now. Archived from the original on January 16, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2016.

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