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Amy Goodman

Nacido: April 13, 1957 – Bay Shore, New York, United States

Amy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist, investigative reporter, and author best known as the co-founder and longtime host of Democracy Now! Her work centers on politics, war, human rights, and social justice. She has written books including The Silenced Majority and received honors such as the Right Livelihood Award.

Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor

Amy Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York, in 1957 and grew up on Long Island in a family shaped by civic engagement and Jewish social-justice traditions. At Harvard, where she completed a degree in anthropology in 1984 after a detour through the College of the Atlantic, she moved between activism, student journalism, and an early interest in public health. She helped found a feminist campus newspaper, later turned her thesis on Depo-Provera into magazine reporting, and discovered in radio a form that could carry voices with a vividness print could not. That discovery led her to Pacifica station WBAI, where she began in 1985 and spent a decade building the habits of independent reporting. ((https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/alumni-profile-amy-goodman))

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It is the role of the media to go to where the silence is and, so often, it is not silent there
-Go to Where the Silence Is
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Our job as journalists is to go to where the silence is, and that’s often following the money trail
-Amy Goodman Questions Top GOP Donor David Koch
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We need a media that is truly independent and that serves a democratic society
-Washington Journal
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We need a media that covers power, not covers for power
-Democracy Now! 20th Anniversary Celebration
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The media are among the most powerful institutions on Earth because they’re not only among the wealthiest, but they are the way the whole world views us and we view each other
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I believe that’s the rule of reporters to go to where the silence is, to bring us the voices of people who are at ground zero
-Independent Media In a Time of War
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Our mission is to make dissent commonplace in America
-Independent Media In a Time of War
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Dissent is what makes this country healthy, and the media has to fight for that, and we have to fight for an independent media
-Independent Media In a Time of War

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Voces de la Comunidad

"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights"

Noam Chomsky

"Amy Goodman is a national treasure"

Tavis Smiley

"Amy Goodman has consistently set the bar for common sense journalism"

Willie Nelson

"Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power"

Susan Sarandon

"Amy Goodman continues the quest for global justice and awareness by bringing us stories and a perspective we don’t normally get from the mainstream media"

Danny Glover

"Trust Amy Goodman and her brother David Goodman to find the fierce and fearless voices that must awaken us from sleep"

Alice Walker

"Amy Goodman doesn’t practice trickle-down journalism"

Bill Moyers

"Amy Goodman is one of the most important voices in America"

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