Amy Goodman
Overview
Amy Goodman is an American progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist
Syndicated columnist
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, investigative reporter and author. Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!
Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of...

, an independent global news program broadcast daily on radio, television and the internet.
Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York
Bay Shore, New York
Bay Shore is a hamlet and a census-designated place located in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, USA. It is situated on the south shore of Long Island, adjoining the Great South Bay. Bay Shore celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2008. The population of the CDP was 23,852 at the time of...

 on April 13, 1957 to Dr. George Goodman—an ophthalmologist—and Dorothy "Dorrie" Bock, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975.
Quotations

Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

We have a decision to make every hour of every day, and that is whether to represent the sword or the shield. Democracy now.

 
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