Amy Goodman Biography
Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author from the United States. Her investigative journalism experience includes reporting on the East Timor independence movement, Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara, and the Chevron Corporation’s role in Nigeria.
How old is Amy Goodman? – Age
She is 65 years old as of 13 April 2022. She was born in 1957 in Bay Shore, New York, United States.
What nationality is Amy Goodman? – Family – Education
She was born to secular Jewish parents who were involved in community service. George Goodman, her father, was an ophthalmologist. Dorothy Goodman, her mother, was a literature teacher and later a social worker. David Goodman and Steven N. Goodman are her two brothers. The maternal grandfather of Goodman was an Orthodox rabbi. Her maternal grandmother was born in the Ukrainian town of Rivne.
Raised in New York, Goodman attended the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine for a year before graduating from Harvard University’s Radcliffe College with a degree in anthropology in 1984.
Who is Amy Goodmans Husband?
In September 2007, Goodman was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy. She is a yoga practitioner.
Amy Goodman Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Amy Goodman Democracy Now
When she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996, Goodman had been the news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for more than a decade. Since then, Democracy Now! has been described as “probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time” by professor and media critic Robert McChesney.
The show was temporarily taken off the air in 2001 due to a disagreement between some Pacifica Radio board members, staff members, and listeners about the station’s direction. During that time, it relocated to a converted firehouse, from which it broadcast for nearly eight years, from January 2002 to November 13, 2009. Following that, Democracy Now! relocated to a studio in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Goodman attributes the program’s success to the “huge niche” left by mainstream media organizations’ coverage.
Amy Goodman Douglass award
On February 14, 2019, she and others were honored at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., with the Frederick Douglass 200 award. The Frederick Douglass 200 award is a collaboration between the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Amy Goodman Arrested
Several Democracy Now! colleagues were arrested and detained by police while covering an anti-war protest outside the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. While trying to find out the whereabouts of her colleagues, Goodman was arrested and detained on suspicion of obstructing a legal process and interfering with a police officer. Fellow Democracy Now! producers, including reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous, were arrested on suspicion of rioting. The producers’ arrests were videotaped.
After Goodman and her colleagues were released, City Attorney John Choi stated that the charges against them would be dropped. For the illegal arrests, Goodman (et al.) filed a federal civil lawsuit against the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments, as well as the US Secret Service. The agencies reached a $100,000 settlement and agreed to educate officers about members of the press and the public’s First Amendment rights.
Amy was charged with criminal trespass after covering the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota in September 2016. On October 17, she turned herself in to the Morton County sheriff, with the help of the Committee to Protect Journalists. District Judge John Grinsteiner dismissed the case on October 17, 2016, finding no probable cause to support a riot charge. Goodman was one of only two people arrested on the day in question, and her arrest raised public awareness of the protests. Deia Schlosberg, a reporter, was arrested in similar circumstances while covering pipeline protests.
Amy Goodman Bill Clinton
For 28 minutes, Goodman and WBAI’s Gonzalo Aburto grilled President Bill Clinton on human rights issues, including racial profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), normalizing relations with Cuba, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, when Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000 to make a quick call to encourage people to vote. Clinton defended the policies of his administration and labeled Goodman as “hostile and combative”.