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person_profile-Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman Age: 67

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Amy Goodman

Date of Birth:

Apr 13, 1957

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Amy Goodman

    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.

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Amy Goodman

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Filmography of

Amy Goodman

Found 6 Movies in total

... 2018

Risk

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

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

Self, host and executive producer, Democracy Now! ( Actor )

... 2016

Programming the Nation?

Herself ( Actor )

... 2011

Crude

Self - Democracy Now ( Actor )

... 2009

The End of America

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2008