Amy Goodman Biography

Amy Goodman is a noted and respected American Broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times.

Amy is the executive producer and host of the popular daily independent radio, Internet and television news program Democracy Now! It is broadcast on 650 stations around the world. The most talked about investigative journalism coverage of hers is the East Timorese independence movement and the role of the Chevron Corporation in Nigeria. For her hard work in her journalism career and for promoting peace around the world, Amy has received several awards, including the Right Livelihood Award (2008), the Izzy Award, the Gandhi Peace Award, and many more. .

Early life and education of Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman was born on April 13, 1957 in Washington DC. Her father was George Goodman, an ophthalmologist, and her mother, Dorothy, a social worker. Amy and her siblings are of Orthodox Jewish descent.

They grew up in Bay Shore, New York, where Amy attended Bay Shore High School, graduating in 1975. She then graduated from Radcliffe College in 1984 with a degree in anthropology.

He joined the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine and studied there for a year before deciding to pursue a career in journalism. Amy came to the spotlight in 1991 when she was covering the East Timorese independent movement.

She and her journalist colleague were severely beaten by Indonesian soldiers and also witnessed a mass killing of Timorese protesters later dubbed the Santa Cruz Massacre.

Goodman and his colleagues went on to document the role of the Chevron Corporation in a conflict between the Nigerian military and villagers who seized oil rigs and various other tools belonging to the oil corporations.

Chevron assisted by providing helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police to its Parabe oil rig on May 28 of the same year that it had been occupied by villagers who accused Chevron of polluting their land. The documentary titled ‘Drilling and Death: Chevron and the Nigerian Oil Dictatorship’ took the George Polk Award every year.

Amy Goodman’s career

Amy was also the news director for New York City-based station Pacifica Radio WBAI for over 10 years. Meanwhile, Ella Amy helped found Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. The show was temporarily taken off the air due to a confrontation between Pacific Radio board members and Pacifica staff members and listeners in 2001.

Shortly after, he moved into a converted firehouse and began broadcasting until November 2009, when he moved to a studio located in Manhattan. Amy has been under various accusations and has been accused on several occasions, including Bill Clinton calling her approach hostile and combative when she challenged him for 28 minutes with questions during his quick message to vote with WBAI at Election Say 2000. .

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Goodman and several of his colleagues at Democracy Now! they were arrested by police during the 2008 Republic National Convention while reporting on an anti-war protest. Amy was charged with obstructing legal process and interfering with police, but was later released and all charges against her were dropped.

As a result of Amy’s civil lawsuit against the St. Paul and Minneapolis Police Department and the Secret Service, there was a $100,000 settlement and an agreement that claimed to educate officers on the First Amendment rights of members of the press and the public.

Among other miscellaneous incidents, one was on November 25, 2009 when Amy was denied entry into Canada to attend a meeting at the Vancouver Public Library, for approximately 90 minutes at the Douglas border crossing.

He was later allowed into Canada and customs took four photos of him, recorded a control document in his passport, and required him to leave Canada within 48 hours. Apart from all the insults that she has suffered, her Amy is also appreciated and respected by various people around the world, for which she receives many awards in her lap.

He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Reporting in 1993, the George Polk Award in 1998, the Islamic Community Award in 2004 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for journalism, the Thomas Merton Award in the same year, the Puffin/Nation Award for Creative Citizenship, the Right Livelihood Award in 2008, the Izzy Award for Special Achievement in Independent Media in 2009, and the Gandhi Award for a significant contribution to promoting lasting international peace.

Amy received an honorary Doctor of Letters from DePauw University in May 2012 in recognition of her journalistic work and an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Purchase College in 2014 for it.

Amy has written five books to date including The Rulers Exception: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiters, and the Media Who Love Them in 2004, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back in 2006.

Amy published Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times in 2008, which became a New York Times bestseller. Amy wrote Breaking the Sound Barrier in 2009 and The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope in 2012.

Goodman has also narrated a film called One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern in 2006, which later went on to win the Sarasota Film Festival award for Best Documentary Feature.

Amy is currently 56 years old and still very active. In 2007, she discovered that she suffered from temporary Bell’s palsy, but did not discuss it with the media, which later resulted in Lifestylepedia listing her as having suffered a stroke and being circulated and added to her biography and articles from Personal life.

Later, he clarified that he actually suffered from Bell’s palsy, which causes inflammation in the seventh cranial nerve that leads to problems with the eye, nose, ear, and temporary nerve paralysis as well.

Amy Goodman net worth and salary

Amy Goodman net worth is $3 million today. She earns a large amount of salary from her successful career.

She is the author of the books The Rulers Exception: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiters, and the Media Who Love Them, Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, Standing Up for Madness: ordinary heroes in extraordinary times. , Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope, and Democracy Now!: Twenty Years of Covering the Movements Changing America.

Goodman narrated the 2006 film One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern.

Amy Goodman’s personal life

As for her personal life, she wishes to reveal very little about it and is currently married to her husband Denis Moynihan. No news has surfaced regarding any kind of divorce issue between them and she has never revealed anything about the number of children she has.

Age, body measurements and other facts

• Age: Amy Goodman is 62 years old as of 2019.
• Birth sign: Aries
• Height: Amy Goodman is 6 feet 2 inches (1.87 m) tall.
• Weight: His body weight is around 60 kg (132 pounds).
• Body Measurements: She has a slim and slender body, however the actual measurements have yet to be discovered.

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