Amy Goodman

Known for ActingBorn 1957-04-13 (age 69)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 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, and the 2016 Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America. In 2016, she was criminally charged with a riot in connection with her coverage of protests of the Dakota Access pipeline. This action was condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The charges were dismissed by the North Dakota district judge on October 17, 2016. In 2014 she was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation.Read more

Movies & web series

Steal This Story, Please!

I Get Knocked Down

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Post Truth Times

One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern

The Colbert Report

The End of America

Democracy Now!

Risk

Crude

Programming the Nation?

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Big Bucks Big Pharma - Marketing Disease and Pushing Drugs

The Peace!

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Massacre: The Story of East Timor

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