Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is the host of Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine Democracy Now!. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in anthropology in 1984, she went to New York City and found WBAI on her radio dial. She began volunteering at the station and a few years later became the station's news director. She never left. She is a recipient of the George Polk Award, the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a Project Censored award for the radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship. She has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary co-produced with Allan Nairn, MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting. Goodman has reported from Israel and the Occupied territories, Cuba, Mexico, and Haiti. In 2002 she became the first journalist ever to interview the jailed US citizen Lori Berenson, serving a life sentence in Peru. Goodman also recently broadcast the first US radio interview with imprisoned East Timor rebel leader Xanana Gusmao. Democracy Now! is broadcast locally on KPFA Radio (94.1 FM) each weekday at 9:00 am and throughout the nation on more than 270 radio and television stations. This program gives voice to the voiceless, broadcasting in-depth interviews with community members, activists, academics, artists and journalists shut out by the mainstream media. Amy and her brother, David Goodman, have recently published The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. Links Biography on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman and Cornel West discuss "politics, race, and the election" Go to the show! Booknotes Interview on Exception to the Rulers
