Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 1,500 public television and radio stations worldwide.
Goodman is a recipient of the George Polk Award, Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence, American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award, the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award.
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She is 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 also the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the legendary journalist I.F. Stone, and was later inducted into the Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame.
Goodman was awarded the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship and has received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored. Goodman received the first ever Communication for Peace Award from the World Association for Christian Communication. She was also honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language and received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Goodman is the author of six New York Times bestsellers: “Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America,” co-written with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan (2016); “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope” (2012); “Breaking the Sound Barrier” (with a preface by Bill Moyers), (2009); “Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times” co-written with David Goodman (2008); “Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back” co-written with David Goodman (2006); and “The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them” co-written with David Goodman (2004).
