Amy Goodman

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Amy Goodman (2010)

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957 in Bay Shore , New York ) is an American journalist , author and television presenter . She gained notoriety through the daily program Democracy Now presented by Pacifica Radio WBAI , which she co-founded in 1996 as a longtime news editor.

Goodman is particularly committed to democracy and human rights, as well as media independence.

Life

Goodman was educated at Bay Shore High School and then studied anthropology at Radcliffe College (part of Harvard University ) and the College of the Atlantic . She graduated from Harvard University in 1984.

Journalistic work

Noam Chomsky , Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald (2011)

Goodmann began her journalistic career at the Pacifica Network broadcaster WBAI in New York. In 1991 Goodman and Allan Nairn reported on the independence movement in East Timor . Both were witnesses of the Santa Cruz massacre (also Dili massacre ). Goodman suggested that her American passport was the reason she got away with her life, since the US military was supporting the Indonesian army at the time .

In 2003, Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill exposed the role the Chevron oil company played in a confrontation between the Nigerian army and villagers over control of Nigeria's oil reserves. Prior to the US presidential election in 2000 , Amy Goodman conducted a well-known impromptu interview with Bill Clinton on topics including Iraq, the death penalty and Ralph Nader . Clinton originally only called the show to call on citizens to vote, a common practice in the United States, also known as get out the vote . Clinton reacted angrily to Goodman's unplanned questions and asked the audience to vote for Al Gore .

In 2004 David and Amy Goodman urged the Pulitzer Board to revoke William L. Laurence and the New York Times the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . They complained that while Laurence was reporting on the atomic bombs, he was paid not only by the NYT but also by the US Department of Defense (then still the United States Department of War ) and therefore did not report independently, as is appropriate for a journalist. They criticized the fact that he reported on the government's instructions and thus withheld some of the devastating consequences of the bombing, especially deaths from radiation.

Since October 2006 she has been writing a weekly column entitled Breaking the Sound Barrier , which is distributed by the King Features Syndicate .

In September 2016, an arrest warrant was issued for Amy Goodmann in North Dakota for breaking a cordon and participating in an unauthorized protest. She and her team for Democracy Now! reported on the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline Project from Standing Rock . The pictures of the use of the private security service, which had cracked down on the demonstrators with dogs and pepper spray, led to increased media attention to the protests, which had hitherto been neglected and were shown on several commercial and public American radio stations. On October 17, District Judge John Grinsteiner acquitted her of the charges made against her.

Awards

Goodman has received numerous awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In 2004 she received the Thomas Merton Award for Peace and Social Justice. In 2008, Amy Goodman became the first female journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize"). In 2017, Goodman was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts (selection)

  • Amy Goodman, David Goodman: Don't argue! Why the media loves slick politicians and warmongers. Kai Homilius Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89706-856-8 .
  • Amy Goodman, David Goodman: Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back. Hyperion Books, 2006, ISBN 1-4013-0293-9 .
  • Amy Goodman, David Goodman: Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Hyperion Books, 2008, ISBN 1-4013-2288-3 .
  • Amy Goodman: Breaking the Sound Barrier. Haymarket Books, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-1-931859-99-8 .
  • Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope , Haymarket Books, 2012, ISBN 1-60846-231-5

literature

Web links

Commons : Amy Goodman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Knöderl: Amy Goodman: Gentle Warrior . In Friday . No. 2/2018, January 11, 2018. Page 21ff
  2. ↑ The Hiroshima Cover Up, report by Amy and David Goodman ( Memento of March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Greta Anderson: Breaking: Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota ... In: Pacifica Network. September 12, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Stephen F. Cohen: Amy Goodman Is Facing Jail Time for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All. In: thenation.com. October 17, 2016, accessed March 10, 2017 .
  5. ^ Judge Rejects "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman in North Dakota. In: Democracy Now! October 17, 2016, accessed January 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Sam Levin: Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman after oil pipeline protest. In: The Guardian . October 17, 2016, accessed January 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Goodman, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, author and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bay Shore , New York