Amy Goodman

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Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author.

The East Timor freedom movement and Chevron Corporation's presence in Nigeria are among her investigative journalism work.

Since 1996, she has been the primary host of Democracy Now!, a national news network broadcast on radio, television, and the Internet.

She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Thomas Merton Award in 2004, a Right Livelihood Award in 2008, and the Izzy Award in 2009 for "extraordinary achievement in independent media." Goodman was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2012 for his "important contribution to the establishment of an enduring international peace."

She is the author of six books, including the 2012 The Silenced Majority: A History of Uprisings, Occupation, and Intuition, as well as the 2016 Democracy Now! Twenty Years Reporting America's Movements Has Changed America.

She was jailed in 2016 for reporting the Dakota Access pipeline protests.

The allegations, which had been criticized by the Committee to Protect Journalists, were dismissed on October 17, 2016. She was given the I.F. In 2014, the Nieman Foundation in Harvard awarded the Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.

Early life and education

Amy Goodman was born to secular Jewish parents who were active in social justice organizations. George Goodman, her father, was an ophthalmologist. Dorothy Goodman, a literature instructor and later a social worker, became her mother. She has two brothers, David Goodman and Steven N. Goodman. The maternal grandfather of a Goodman was an Orthodox rabbi. In Rivne, Ukraine, her maternal grandmother was born.

Goodman, a New York native, attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he earned his undergraduate degree in anthropology from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1984.

Personal life

Goodman had a bout of Bell's palsy in September 2007. She practices yoga.

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Investigative journalism career

After being witnessed a mass shooting of Timorese demonstrators, what became known as the Santa Cruz Massacre in 1991, Goodman and fellow journalist Allan Nairn reported that they were badly wounded by Indonesian troops.

Jeremy Scahill, a writer and journalist, chronicled Chevron Corporation's involvement in a dispute between the Nigerian Army and villagers that had confiscated oil rigs and other equipment of oil companies in 1998. During the standoff, two villagers were shot and killed. On May 28, 1998, the company delivered helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL) in Parabe oil platform, which had been occupied by villagers who suspected the company of contaminating their land. The Nigerian military shot and killed two of the protesters, Jola Ogungbeje and Aroleka Irowanu, within minutes after landing, as well as 11 others. Sola Omole, a Chevron spokesperson, confirmed that the troops were transported by the company. Chevron's president had requested troops from the government to shield their facility, according to Omole. In 1998, the George Polk Award winning documentary made by Goodman and her colleagues, Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship.

Michael Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, said of Goodman: "She is not an editor." She sticks to the facts: She has points of view that make you laugh out loud and says, "Who are we not hearing from in the conventional media?" She responds to the point of view by saying, "Who are we not hearing from in the traditional media?"

When she co-founded Democracy Now, Goodman served as the news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for more than a decade. In 1996, the War and Peace Report was published.

Since then, Democracy Now!

Professor and media critic Robert McChesney referred to it as "probably the most important progressive news institution that has appeared in some time" after it was described as "probably the most important liberal news institution that has appeared in some time."The show was briefly suspended off the air in 2001 as a result of a dispute between some Pacifica Radio board members and staff members and listeners about the station's direction. It changed to a converted firehouse from which it had been broadcasting from January 2002 to November 13, 2009.

Democracy Now!

We then moved to a Chelsea studio in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.

Goodman attributes the program's success to the "huge audience" that has been left out by mainstream media outlets' coverage.

Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto confronted AIM activist Leonard Peltier, socioeconomic profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, and the Israeli-Palestinian war when President Bill Clinton called WBAI for a quick get-out-the-vote message for 28 minutes, addressing human rights concerns regarding AIM activists Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraq war, and the Israeli–Palestion Clinton defended his administration's plans, saying that Goodman was "hostile and combative."

Several of Goodman's coworkers from Democracy Now! appeared in Saint Paul, Minnesota, at the 2008 Republican National Convention. When reporting on an anti-war demonstration outside of the RNC, journalists were arrested and arrested by police. Goodman was also arrested and detained while trying to ascertain the identities of her coworkers, as well as interference with a police officer.

Fellow Democracy Now!

On suspicion of probable cause for the revolt, producers, including reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous, were detained. The producers' depositions were caught on camera. The charges against Goodman and her coworkers were later dismissed, according to City Attorney John Choi, who announced that they would be dropped. Goodman (et al.). For the unlawful arrests, the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments and the US Secret Service filed a federal civil lawsuit against the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments as well as the US Secret Service. The departments also agreed to educate officers about the First Amendment rights of members of the media and public.

Goodman and her two colleagues, Denis Moynihan and Chuck Scurich, were detained by Canadian agents across the Douglas, British Columbia border crossing into Canada on November 25, 2009, en route to a scheduled meeting at the Vancouver Public Library. During the meeting, immigration officials raised concerns pertaining to the intended subjects of discussion. They wanted to know if she would be speaking at the 2010 Olympic Games in Canada.

After the customs investigators took four photographs of her, testing Scurich's laptop, and stapled a "control document" into her passport, she and her coworkers were finally allowed to fly to Canada; it was also permitted to leave Canada within 48 hours.

Goodman covered the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in Morton County, North Dakota, in September; a video of her reporting "showed security forces peppering and siccing attack dogs on demonstrators."

After Democracy Now!

She was charged by state prosecutor Ladd Erickson with unlawful trespass, according to the video. Erickson charged her with riot after the court dismissed her lawsuit, obtaining a warrant for her detention. Goodman acted as "a protester" rather than a journalist, according to Erickson, "because every single thing she reported was from the position of defending the protestes."

On October 17, Goodman pled guilty to the Morton County sheriff by stating that she would fight the charges against her as a "clear violation" of the First Amendment, which guarantees the free press. The Committee to Protect Journalists (July) had supported her in writing a statement that stated: "This arrest warrant is a clear attempt to deter journalists from reporting events of significant public interest." [...] North Dakota authorities should avoid embarrassing themselves, drop the charges against Amy Goodman, and make sure that all reporters are paid to do their jobs." The executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association, Steve Andrist, expressed worry that a journalist was one of the only two individuals covered by an arrest warrant from the day in question. Goodman was arrested because she was identified from the video footage, according to authorities.

District Judge John Grinsteiner of the South Central Judicial District dismissed the lawsuit on October 17, 2016, finding no probable motive to support a riot conviction. According to reports, the charges against Goodman heightened public knowledge of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Democracy Now! Goodman was presenting the day's Democracy Today! The Morton County Courthouse's broadcast was broadcast live from inside. While reporting on pipeline-related demonstrations, reporter Deia Schlosberg was arrested in similar circumstances.

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