Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! She is co-author of the national best-seller The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, written with her brother David Goodman. The book was chosen by independent bookstores as the No. 1 political title of the 2004 election season. The book was also chosen as one of the top 50 nonfiction books of 2004 by the editors of Publishers Weekly. In 2006, she published her second book with David, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back. Their latest book, published in 2008, is Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 300 stations in North America. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the United States, Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television, shortwave radio and the Internet. Democracy Now’s “War and Peace Report” provides its audience with access to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and independent analysts.