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Amy Goodman  Radio Journalist

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Amy Goodman

Radio Festival Seminar, 2003

Amy Goodman discusses the genesis of Pacifica Radio, WBAI, and her show Democracy Now!.
 

Career Includes

Editor, Evening News (1985–86); Producer, Evening News (1986–96); Coproducer (with Allan Nairn), Massacre: The Story of East Timor (1991); Cohost, Wake-Up Call (1992–2001); Executive Producer/Principal Host, Democracy Now! (1996– ); Coproducer (with Jeremy Scahill), Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship (1998), From Annihilation to a New Nation (2002); Author (with David Goodman), The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006); Narrator, One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2006); Syndicated Weekly Newspaper Columnist, Amy Goodman: Breaking the Sound Barrier (2006– )
 

Education

Harvard University, 1984, BA, Anthropology
 

Born

April 13, 1957

 

 

 

 

 


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