Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of "Democracy Now!", a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." She is the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, and was later selected for induction into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame.

Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers, including "Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America", "The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope", and "Breaking the Sound Barrier". Before these, she co-authored with her brother, journalist David Goodman: "Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times", "Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back", and "The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them". Additionally, Goodman co-writes a weekly column with Denis Moynihan, syndicated by King Features, recognized with the 2007 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting. Goodman's reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won several prestigious awards, including the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.