Independent radio journalist Amy Goodman is co-host of the award-winning show
Democracy Now!, which airs on the Pacifica radio network and more than 700 radio and TV stations across the United States and around the world. Her weekly column is distributed by King Features Syndicate. She is also a former news director for WBAI in New York. She is the author of three books, co-authored with her brother David Goodman,
The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004),
Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006), and
Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (April, 2008). She is a 1998 recipient with Jeremy Scahill of the George Polk Award for the radio documentary
Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship, which exposed the oil company’s role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998. Goodman and Scahill have co-wrote two articles in
The Nation magazine on the Chevron-related killings. She is also co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn
Massacre: The Story of East Timor, a radio documentary on the Santa Cruz massacre of November 12, 1991 and the history of Indonesian and US involvement in the Southeast Asian nation.