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Amy GoodmanAmy Goodman is an American broadcast journalist and author. She is best known as the host of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! program. As an investigative journalist, Goodman has aggressively pursued human rights violations in East Timor, Nigeria, and other countries. Goodman was born in Bayshore, New York, in 1957, into a Jewish family. She graduated from Harvard University in 1984. Goodman was news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New York City for a decade, co-founding Democracy Now! in 1996. The show moved off-site permanently in 2000 as a result of a conflict over control of Pacifica Radio with a group favoring less news and more jazz. The show moved to a converted firehouse (where it is still located) and begun broadcasting "In Exile". Listeners eventually regained control of Pacifica and brought the show back. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0203/block.php In 1991, covering the independence movement in East Timor, Goodman and journalist Allan Nairn were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after they witnessed a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the Dili Massacre. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0328246 She has speculated that having an American passport was the reason why her fate was different from that of Australian journalists who were killed in East Timor in 1975 (the United States was providing military support to the Indonesian army at the time). In 2003, Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented the cooperation in human rights abuses in Nigeria between the Chevron Corporation and the Nigerian army. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1517242 In the run-up to the 2000 presidential election, President Bill Clinton telephoned WBAI to argue in support of Vice President Al Gore over Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. The ensuing interview between Goodman and Clinton, which the president characterized as "hostile", became well known among American progressives. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/22/148258 Goodman has received dozens of awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. In 2001, she declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest of the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/040242 Quotes - When you think of a journalist do you think of a sleazy individual only interested in pop stars, royalty and sex scandals? Amy Goodman can make you think again. (The Socialist UK newspaper 28 01 2005)
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