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Amy Goodman

エイミー・グッドマン　/　えいみー・ぐっどまん

American columnist

April 13, 1957 (age 69)　・　Washington, D.C., United States

columnist
radio producer
investigative journalist

My Take

Amy Goodman is, to me, one of the most quietly heroic figures in modern journalism. Since co-founding Democracy Now! in the 1990s, she has built an independent newsroom that refuses to march in lockstep with the establishment press. The roster of honors, from the George Polk Award to the Gandhi Peace Award and the Orwell Award, tells you she has spent decades afflicting the comfortable. What impresses me most is the consistency: same skeptical questions, same insistence on amplifying voices the mainstream ignores. In an era of media consolidation, her dogged independence feels less like a career and more like a calling.

Overview

Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Since 1996, Goodman has been the main host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an independent global news program that she co-founded; it is broadcast daily and syndicated nationally on radio, television, and the Internet, including transcription.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Amy Goodman
Name (Japanese): エイミー・グッドマン
Reading: えいみー・ぐっどまん
Born: April 13, 1957 (age 69)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Rooster
Origin: Washington, D.C., United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: columnist / radio producer / investigative journalist / writer / television producer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Bay Shore High School
University: Radcliffe College

Awards & achievements

2009 Orwell Award
2008 Right Livelihood Award
1998 George Polk Award
2012 Gandhi Peace Award
2003 EFF Award
2004 Thomas Merton Award
2016 I. F. Stone Hall of Fame
2001 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Democracy Now!	—
Notable work	Access of Evil	—
Notable work	The Exception to the Rulers	—
Notable work	Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back	—
Notable work	Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times	—
Notable work	Breaking the Sound Barrier	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

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