Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,500 public television and radio stations worldwide, with millions of subscribers across major social media platforms.
Amy was the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism honored her with the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. Among her reporting awards are the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the George Polk Award, and the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for the reporting she and her team did from the Indigenous-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Goodman has co-authored six NYT bestsellers. Her latest, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America, covers the first two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders shaping our world..
She is the subject of the feature-length documentary, Steal This Story, Please! by the Oscar-nominated directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, opening in theaters in April, 2026.
