Amy Goodman
American journalist (born 1957) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Amy Goodman?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957)[2] 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.
Amy Goodman | |
---|---|
Born | (1957-04-13) April 13, 1957 (age 67) Bay Shore, New York, U.S. |
Education | College of the Atlantic Harvard University (BA) |
Awards | Right Livelihood Award |
Career | |
Show | Democracy Now! |
Station | 1,524[1] |
Network | Pacifica Radio |
Style | Investigative journalism |
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,[3] and the 2016 Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America.[4] In 2016, she was criminally charged with a riot in connection with her coverage of protests of the Dakota Access pipeline.[5] This action was condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The charges were dismissed by the North Dakota district judge on October 17, 2016.[6]
In 2014 she was awarded the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation.