“Why are you letting their, her dog go after the protesters? It’s covered in blood.”
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Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman 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 e…
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culture · American journalist and author (born 1957) · columnist · radio producer · investigative journalist · writer · television producer · television presenter · journalist · also Amy Goodman, Goodman
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2026· 2 entries
“We have a right to report. It’s also critical that we are on the front lines. Today, the judge sided with … freedom of the press.”
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2024· 1 entry
Goodman received the Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association
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2019· 1 entry
She, and others, received the Frederick Douglass 200 award and was honored at the Library of Congress in Washington, D
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2016· 3 entries
The case was dismissed by District Judge John Grinsteiner, of the South Central Judicial District, who found no probable cause to support a riot charge
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Awarded I. F. Stone Hall of Fame (2016).
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Goodman and Democracy Now
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2014· 1 entry
Received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Purchase College, SUNY in recognition of her progressive journalism
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded Gandhi Peace Award (2012).
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Goodman received the Gandhi Peace Award for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace"
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2009· 4 entries
Goodman and her two colleagues, Denis Moynihan and Chuck Scurich, were detained for approximately 90 minutes by Canadian agents at the Douglas, British Columbia border crossing into Canada while en route to a scheduled m
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Awarded Orwell Award (2009).
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Awarded Izzy Award (2009).
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Goodman, with Glenn Greenwald, received the first Izzy Award (named after journalist I
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Right Livelihood Award (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded James Aronson Award (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
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Goodman narrated the film One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern, a documentary chronicling the life and times of the retired Democratic politician George McGovern, focusing on his failed 1972
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2004· 4 entries
Was presented the Thomas Merton Award
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Was presented the Islamic Community Award for Journalism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
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Awarded Thomas Merton Award (2004).
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A Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and an Izzy Award in 2009 for "special achievement in independent media"
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded EFF Award (2003).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage (2001).
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The show was temporarily pulled off the air, as a result of a conflict between some Pacifica Radio board members and staff members and listeners over the direction of the station
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2000· 1 entry
Amid conflicts regarding control of Pacifica that threatened the stability of the program's platform, Goodman negotiated greater independence for the program by pioneering a national, collaborative multimedia model to of
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1999· 1 entry
Declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest at the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and because the OPC was honoring Indonesia for its improved trea
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded George Polk Award (1998).
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The company provided helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL) to their Parabe oil platform, which had been occupied by villagers who accused the company of contaminating their land
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Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented Chevron Corporation's role in a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and villagers who had seized oil rigs and other equipment belonging to oil corporations
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1991· 2 entries
Minnesota in 2008, and North Dakota in 2016
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Covering the East Timor independence movement, Goodman and fellow journalist Allan Nairn reported that they were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after witnessing the Santa Cruz massacre, a mass killing of East Timore
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1984· 1 entry
From Radcliffe College of Harvard University with a degree in anthropology
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-04-13.
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