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Amy Goodman
Independent Journalist, television/radio host, author
A longtime advocate for "un-embedded" independent media, Amy Goodman's journalism career has been extraordinary. At great personal risk, she covered the 1991 independence movement in East Timor. In an effort to protect a group of East Timorese demonstrators, Goodman and a fellow journalist joined the group and were badly beaten -- saved in Goodman’s opinion only by their American passports, and made to watch as the demonstrators were massacred.
Goodman co-founded Democracy Now! in 1996. Broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community and college radio stations as well as PBS and satellite television stations around the world, Democracy Now! gives its audience perspectives rarely found in corporate media. “It’s just the basic tenets of good journalism that...you talk to people who live at the target end of the policy,” says Goodman, speaking about Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman is the author of multiple articles, blogs and books, including her 2008 critically acclaimed book, Standing Up to the Madness, which she co-authored with her brother David Goodman.
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