Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman was born in Bay Shore, New York on Long Island{{Cite web |title=Amy Goodman {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amy-Goodman |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |language=en-GB}} to secular Jewish parents who were active in social action groups.{{Cite web|url=http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Obituary-10358.112114_Dorothy_Goodman.html |title=Dorothy Goodman Obituary |date=October 2, 2013 |access-date=April 13, 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002085919/http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Obituary-10358.112114_Dorothy_Goodman.html |archive-date=October 2, 2013 }}{{Cite news|url=https://forward.com/culture/339517/how-a-rabbis-granddaughter-became-the-host-of-democracy-now/|first=Philip|last=Eil|title=How a Rabbi's Granddaughter Became the Host of Democracy Now!|work=The Forward|date=April 30, 2016|access-date=March 3, 2018}} Her father, George Goodman, was an ophthalmologist.{{Cite news|url=http://www.stowetoday.com/waterbury/archives/david-goodman-making-of-an-activist/article_c5fbb0a6-90e8-5562-94cf-6c37a82d86e9.html|title=David Goodman: Making of an activist|last=Askew|first=James|work=Stowe Today|access-date=April 13, 2017|language=en}} Her mother, Dorothy Goodman, was a literature teacher and later a social worker.{{cite news |date=October 2009 |title=Dorothy Goodman Obituary |url=http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Obituary-10358.112114_Dorothy_Goodman.html |url-status=dead |newspaper=Northshoreoflongisland.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002085919/http://www.northshoreoflongisland.com/Obituary-10358.112114_Dorothy_Goodman.html |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |access-date=March 23, 2013}} She has two brothers, David Goodman and Steven N. Goodman.{{Cite web|date=September 18, 2020|title=Trump Coronavirus Adviser Threatens to Sue Stanford Doctors over Criticism|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines/trump_coronavirus_adviser_threatens_to_sue_stanford_doctors_over_criticism|url-status=live|website=Democracy Now|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919203322/https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines/trump_coronavirus_adviser_threatens_to_sue_stanford_doctors_over_criticism |archive-date=September 19, 2020 }} Goodman's maternal grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi.[http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl1801/18010900.htm "Opening the airwaves to voices not heard"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112123725/http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl1801/18010900.htm |date=November 12, 2013 }}. Hindu.com (May 28, 1998). Retrieved March 23, 2013.[http://www.democracynow.org/2005/10/10/sonia_bock_1897_2005_amy_goodman "Sonia Bock 1897–2005: Amy Goodman Remembers Her Grandmother, a Woman of Three Centuries"], Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now!, October 10, 2005. Retrieved March 31, 2013. Her maternal grandmother was born in Rivne, present day Ukraine.

She graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1975. Goodman studied for a year at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and graduated in 1984 from Radcliffe College of Harvard University with a degree in anthropology.{{cite web|last=Lamb|first=Brian|title=The Exception to the Rulers|url=http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/182109-1/Amy+Goodman.aspx|work=Booknotes|publisher=C-SPAn|access-date=July 12, 2011|date=June 6, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121050659/http://booknotes.org/Watch/182109-1/Amy+Goodman.aspx|archive-date=January 21, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}[http://www.coa.edu/press-release-archives_506.htm "Amy Goodman To Speak At COA"]{{failed verification|date=September 2013}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214180419/http://www.coa.edu/press-release-archives_506.htm |date=December 14, 2010 }}. Coa.edu (September 13, 2008). Retrieved March 23, 2013.

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In 1991, covering the East Timor independence movement, Goodman and fellow journalist Allan Nairn reported that they were badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers after witnessing a mass killing of Timorese demonstrators in what became known as the Santa Cruz massacre.[https://www.democracynow.org/1997/11/12/massacre_the_story_of_east_timor "Massacre: The Story of East Timor"], Democracy Now!, November 12, 1997. Retrieved January 14, 2018.

In 1998, Goodman and journalist Jeremy Scahill documented Chevron Corporation's role in a confrontation between the Nigerian Army and villagers who had seized oil rigs and other equipment belonging to oil corporations. Two villagers were shot and killed during the standoff.[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1517242 "Drilling and Killing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805105701/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03%2F07%2F11%2F1517242 |date=August 5, 2004 }}: As President Bush Meets with the CEO of Chevron Texaco in Nigeria, a Look at Chevron’s Role in the Killing of Two Nigerian Villagers", Democracy Now!, July 11, 2003. Retrieved September 17, 2009.{{Cite web|url=https://www.commondreams.org/author/jeremy-scahill|title=Jeremy Scahill|website=Common Dreams|language=en|access-date=April 13, 2017}} On May 28, 1998, the company provided helicopter transport to the Nigerian Navy and Mobile Police (MOPOL) to their Parabe oil platform, which had been occupied by villagers who accused the company of contaminating their land. Soon after landing, the Nigerian military shot and killed two of the protesters, Jola Ogungbeje and Aroleka Irowaninu, and wounded 11 others. Chevron spokesperson Sola Omole acknowledged that the company transported the troops. Omole said that Chevron management had requested troops from the government to protect their facility. The documentary made by Goodman and her colleagues, Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, won the George Polk Award in 1998.

Michael Delli Carpini, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, said of Goodman: "She's not an editorialist. She sticks to the facts... She provides points of view that make you think, and she comes at it by saying: 'Who are we not hearing from in the traditional media?'"Tanya Barrientos, [http://www.democracynow.org/about/in_the_news/Inquirer "She’s taking the watchdog to task"], The Philadelphia Inquirer, (May 13, 2004).

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Goodman had been news director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI in New York City for more than a decade when she co-founded Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report in 1996. 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.{{cite journal |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ratner |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209131047/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050523/ratner |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2012 |title=Amy Goodman's 'Empire' |last=Ratner |first=Lizzy |journal=The Nation |date=May 23, 2005}}

In 2001, the show was temporarily pulled off the air, as a result of a conflict between some Pacifica Radio board members and staff members and listeners over the direction of the station. During that time, it moved to a converted firehouse, from which it broadcast from January 2002 for nearly eight years, until November 13, 2009.{{Cite news|last=Block|first=Jennifer|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2002/01/15/a-dose-of-democracy-now/|website=The Village Voice|title=A Dose of Democracy, Now: WBAI Listeners Get Their Station Back|date=January 15, 2002|access-date=May 21, 2018}} Democracy Now! subsequently moved to a studio located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.[http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/11/page/2/ Andy Worthington Archive for November 2009]. Andyworthington.co.uk. Retrieved March 23, 2013.

Goodman credits the program's success to the "huge niche" left by coverage of mainstream media organizations.

When President Bill Clinton called WBAI on Election Day 2000[http://www.democracynow.org/2000/11/8/democracy_now_exclusive_interview_with_president Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with President Bill Clinton], Democracy Now!, November 8, 2000. Retrieved September 17, 2009. for a quick get-out-the-vote message, Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto challenged him for 28 minutes with human rights questions about AIM activist Leonard Peltier, racial profiling, the Iraq sanctions, Ralph Nader, the death penalty, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the normalization of relations with Cuba, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Clinton defended his administration's policies and said that Goodman was "hostile and combative".

• [http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/22/bill_clinton_loses_his_cool_in "Bill Clinton Loses His Cool in Democracy Now! Interview on Everything But Monica..."], Democracy Now!, June 22, 2004. Retrieved September 17, 2009.
• Gibbons, Chip, [https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/war-iraq-bill-clinton-sanctions-desert-fox/ "When Iraq Was Clinton’s War: Bill Clinton's 'quiet war' on Iraq set the stage for George W. Bush's bloody invasion"], Jacobin, May 6, 2016.
• Hentoff, Nat, [https://www.villagevoice.com/2001/04/10/can-wbai-be-saved/ "Can WBAI Be Saved?"], Village Voice, April 10, 2001.
• Nader, Ralph, [https://books.google.com/books?id=c8_AsFnPKdsC&dq=amy+goodman+interview+with+bill+clinton&pg=PA3 Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender], Macmillan, 2007, p. 3.
• [https://www.kvmr.org/news/amy-goodman-independent-medias-oxygen-democracy "To Amy Goodman, Independent Media's 'the Oxygen of Democracy'"], KVMR FM.
• [https://wn.com/amy_goodman_meets_bill_clinton_democracy_now_full_28_minutes "Amy Goodman meets Bill Clinton - Democracy Now - full 28 minutes"]. wn.com, February 1, 2011.

During the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, several of Goodman's colleagues from Democracy Now! were arrested and detained by police while reporting on an anti-war protest outside the RNC.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/352466/amy_goodman_others_detained_outside_rnc |title=Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC |date=September 1, 2008 |work=The Nation |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090326173858/http://www.thenation.com/blogs/state_of_change/352466/amy_goodman_others_detained_outside_rnc |archive-date=March 26, 2009 |url-status=live }} While trying to ascertain the status of her colleagues, Goodman was also arrested and held, accused of obstructing a legal process and interfering with a police officer.{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=29751|title=Scenes from St. Paul – Democracy Now's Amy Goodman arrested|date=September 2, 2008|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=September 2, 2008 | first=Joe | last=Garofoli| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080904211608/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=29751| archive-date= September 4, 2008 | url-status= live}} Fellow Democracy Now! producers, including reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous, were held on charges of probable cause for riot.{{cite web|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2008/09/democracy_now_host_amy_goodman.shtml |title=Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman arrested at RNC protest |first=Sanden|last=Totten|date=September 1, 2008 |work=Minnesota Public Radio |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902173612/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2008/09/democracy_now_host_amy_goodman.shtml |archive-date=September 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }} The arrests of the producers were videotaped.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvogepDnZc|title=Amy Goodman's Arrest + Press Conference asked about arrest|website=YouTube |date=September 1, 2008|access-date=September 2, 2008}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}} Goodman and her colleagues were later released,{{Cite news|url=http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/1/update_democracy_now_s_amy_goodman_sharif_abdel_kouddous_and_nicole_salazar_released_after_illegal_arrest_at_rnc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918094605/http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2008/9/1/update_democracy_now_s_amy_goodman_sharif_abdel_kouddous_and_nicole_salazar_released_after_illegal_arrest_at_rnc|archive-date=September 18, 2008|title=Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar Released After Illegal Arrest at RNC|date=September 1, 2008|format=press release|work=Democracy Now!|access-date=September 2, 2008}} City Attorney John Choi indicated that the charges would be dropped.{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-09-19-3415181756_x.htm|title=No charges for reporters arrested in GOP protests|work=USA Today|agency=Associated Press|date=September 19, 2008|access-date=September 20, 2008|first=Chris|last=Williams}} Goodman (et al.) filed a federal civil lawsuit against the St. Paul and Minneapolis police departments and the US Secret Service for the illegal arrests. The agencies reached a $100,000 settlement and agreed to educate officers about the First Amendment rights of members of the press and public.{{Cite news|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/3/settlement_reached_over_arrest_of_amy|title=Settlement Reached Over Arrest of Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Producers at 2008 GOP Convention|work=Democracy Now!|date=October 3, 2011|access-date=October 3, 2011}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/amy-goodman-settles-lawsuit-2008-republican-national-convention-arrest_n_992431.html|title=Amy Goodman, 'Democracy Now!' Settle Lawsuit Over 2008 Republican National Convention Arrests |work=The Huffington Post|date=October 3, 2011|access-date=October 3, 2011|first=Katherine|last=Fung}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/six-figure-settlement-reached-federal-lawsuit-challenging-police-and-secret-service-crackdown-democr|title=Six-Figure Settlement Reached in Federal Lawsuit Challenging Police and Secret Service Crackdown on Democracy Now! Journalists|work=Center for Constitutional Rights|date=October 3, 2011|access-date=October 3, 2011|archive-date=October 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007231442/http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/six-figure-settlement-reached-federal-lawsuit-challenging-police-and-secret-service-crackdown-democr|url-status=dead}}

On November 25, 2009, Goodman and her two colleagues, Denis Moynihan and Chuck Scurich, were detained for approximately 90 minutes by Canadian agents at the Douglas, British Columbia border crossing into Canada while en route to a scheduled meeting at the Vancouver Public Library. Immigration officials asked questions pertaining to the intended topics of discussion at the meeting. They wanted to know whether she would be speaking about the 2010 Olympic Games to be held in Canada.Kathryn Gretzinger, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928222807/http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/bcearlyedition_20091127_23684.mp3 Interview with Amy Goodman], CBC Early Edition, November 27, 2009. Retrieved December 3, 2009 (archived)

She and her colleagues were eventually permitted to enter Canada after the customs authorities took four photographs of her, inspected Scurich's computer, and stapled a "control document" into her passport; it required that she leave Canada within 48 hours.Kathy Tomlinson, [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/u-s-journalist-grilled-at-canada-border-crossing-1.801755 "US journalist grilled at Canada border crossing"], CBC News, November 26, 2009. Retrieved December 1, 2009.

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In September 2016, Goodman covered the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in Morton County, North Dakota; footage from her reporting "showed security personnel pepper-spraying and siccing attack dogs on demonstrators."{{cite news|first=Tom|last= Kludt|title=Judge rules against riot charge for "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman|publisher=CNN Money|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/17/media/amy-goodman-riot-charge-north-dakota/|date=October 17, 2016}} After Democracy Now! aired the footage, she was charged by state prosecutor Ladd Erickson with criminal trespass. After the court dismissed that charge, Erickson charged her with riot,{{cite news|last1=Ratner|first1=Lizzy|title=Amy Goodman Is Facing Prison for Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Should Scare Us All.|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-reporting-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-should-scare-us-all/|access-date=October 15, 2016|work=The Nation|date=October 15, 2016|archive-date=October 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016035451/https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-reporting-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-should-scare-us-all/|url-status=dead}} gaining a warrant for her arrest. Erickson said that Goodman acted as "a protester" rather than a journalist, because "Everything she reported on was from the position of justifying the protest actions."

Goodman turned herself in to the Morton County sheriff on October 17, saying that she would be fighting the charges against her as a "clear violation" of the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of the press.{{Cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/13/media_advisory_journalist_amy_goodman_to|title=MEDIA ADVISORY: Journalist Amy Goodman to Turn Herself in to North Dakota Authorities|date=October 13, 2016|website=Democracy Now!|access-date=October 13, 2016}} She was supported by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which issued a statement saying: "This arrest warrant is a transparent attempt to intimidate reporters from covering protests of significant public interest. [...] Authorities in North Dakota should stop embarrassing themselves, drop the charges against Amy Goodman, and ensure that all reporters are free to do their jobs."{{Cite web|url=https://cpj.org/2016/09/arrest-warrant-for-muckraking-us-journalist.php|title=Arrest warrant for muckraking U.S. journalist - Committee to Protect Journalists|date=September 12, 2016|publisher=Committee to Protect Journalists}} Steve Andrist, executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association, also expressed concern that a journalist was one of only two people covered by an arrest warrant from the day in question. Authorities said that Goodman was charged because she was identified from the video footage.{{Cite news|url=http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/charge-against-reporter-raises-a-red-flag/article_a38cb3b6-2a69-5e53-b5d2-0b062c1bfee3.html|title=Charge against reporter 'raises a red flag'|last=Grueskin|first=Caroling|date=September 12, 2016|newspaper=Bismarck Tribune}}

On October 17, 2016, the case was dismissed by District Judge John Grinsteiner, of the South Central Judicial District, who found no probable cause to support a riot charge.{{cite news|url=http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/defense-attorney-questions-prosecutor-in-amy-goodman-case/article_dc5fb820-4ed4-5a77-b8fb-6a210875e8dc.html|title=Protest winds down at Morton County Courthouse|last=Grueskin|first=Caroline|date=17 October 2016|work=Bismarck Tribune|access-date=17 October 2016}}{{cite news|author=Erin McCann|date=October 17, 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/judge-rejects-riot-charge-against-amy-goodman-of-democracy-now-over-pipeline-protest.html?_r=0|title=Judge Rejects Riot Charge Against Amy Goodman of 'Democracy Now' Over Pipeline Protest|newspaper=The New York Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/17/amy-goodman-north-dakota-oil-access-pipeline-protest-arrest-riot|title=Judge rejects riot charges for journalist Amy Goodman after oil pipeline protest|last=Levin|first=Sam|date=17 October 2016|work=The Guardian|access-date=17 October 2016}} The charges against Goodman reportedly increased the public awareness of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-goodman-north-dakota-20161017-snap-story.html|title=N. Dakota charges reporter with 'riot' for covering protest--but gets slapped down by judge|last=Hiltzik|first=Michael|date=17 October 2016|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=17 October 2016}} Goodman had presented that day's Democracy Now! broadcast from in front of the Morton County Courthouse.{{Cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/17/amy_goodman_broadcasts_from_north_dakota|title=Amy Goodman Broadcasts from North Dakota Across from Court Where She Faces Riot Charge Today|date=October 17, 2016|website=Democracy Now!|access-date=October 17, 2016}} Reporter Deia Schlosberg was arrested in similar circumstances while reporting on pipeline-related protests.{{cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/amy-goodman-dakota-access-pipeline-press-freedom|title=Judge Throws Out Charges Against Journalist Who Covered Dakota Access Pipeline|last=Greenberg|first=Will|date=17 October 2016|work=Mother Jones|access-date=20 October 2016}}

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Goodman has received awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting (1993, with Allan Nairn){{cite web|url=http://rfkmemorial.mediathree.net/legacyinaction/1993/ |title=Robert F Kennedy Memorial: 25th Annual Journalism Awards |access-date=2010-09-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203163247/http://rfkmemorial.mediathree.net/legacyinaction/1993/ |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |df=mdy }}. rfkmemorial.mediathree.net and the George Polk Award (1998, with Jeremy Scahill).[http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Polk/Previous.aspx#1998 George Polk Awards: Previous Winners]. Liu.edu. Retrieved March 23, 2013. In 1999, she declined to accept the Overseas Press Club Award, in protest at the group's pledge not to ask questions of keynote speaker Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and because the OPC was honoring Indonesia for its improved treatment of journalists despite the fact that its forces had recently beaten and killed reporters in occupied East Timor.[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/040242 Pacifica Rejects Overseas Press Club Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805034850/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03%2F04%2F07%2F040242 |date=August 5, 2004 }}, Democracy Now!, April 23, 1999. Retrieved September 17, 2009.

She received the 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage.[http://callawayawards.org/past-winners/ Joe A. Callaway Awards For Civic Courage Past-Winners], Calloway Awards, 2001. Retrieved November 11, 2019.

On October 2, 2004, she was presented the Islamic Community Award for Journalism by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.[http://www.washreport.net/component/content/article/267/8654-muslim-american-activism.html "CAIR Holds Its 10th Annual Banquet With Prominent Guest Speakers"], Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2004, pp. 58–59. Retrieved August 11, 2011. On November 18, 2004, she was presented the Thomas Merton Award.{{cite news |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/04320/412006-67.stm |title=Amy Goodman / Merton Award-winning talk show host prefers listening |date=November 15, 2004 |first=Lillian |last=Thomas |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date=April 7, 2012 |archive-date=November 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126054256/http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/04320/412006-67.stm |url-status=dead }} In 2006, she received the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.[http://www.nationinstitute.org/puffinnation/recip.html Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710194019/http://www.nationinstitute.org/puffinnation/recip.html |date=July 10, 2010 }}, official website.

Goodman was a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation cited her work in "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".[http://www.rightlivelihood.org/goodman.html Right Livelihood Award: 2008 – Amy Goodman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090708050530/http://www.rightlivelihood.org/goodman.html |date=July 8, 2009 }}. Rightlivelihood.org. Retrieved March 23, 2013.

On March 31, 2009, Goodman, with Glenn Greenwald, received the first Izzy Award (named after journalist I. F. "Izzy" Stone) for "special achievement in independent media". The award is presented by Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media.{{cite web|url=http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646 |title=Glenn Greenwald And Amy Goodman Share Inaugural Izzy Award For Independent Media |access-date=March 12, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305151154/http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=2646 |archive-date=March 5, 2009 |df=mdy }}. ithaca.edu (April 3, 2009).

In May 2012, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from DePauw University in recognition of her journalistic work.[http://www.depauw.edu/m/news/?id=28218 Five Distinguished Individuals, Including Three Alumni, to Receive Honorary Doctorates in May] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110510/http://www.depauw.edu/m/news/?id=28218 |date=March 4, 2016 }}. Depauw.edu (March 16, 2012). Retrieved March 23, 2013. She also received the Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace, for a "significant contribution to the promotion of an enduring international peace".Beach, Randall (May 6, 2012), [https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/RANDALL-BEACH-Amy-Goodman-keeps-telling-people-11488443.php "Amy Goodman keeps telling people they can make history in their community"], Nhregister.com. Retrieved May 21, 2018.[http://www.pepeace.org/archives/753 "Gandhi Peace Award Presented to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013210322/http://www.pepeace.org/archives/753 |date=October 13, 2012 }} Pepeace.org (February 22, 1999). Retrieved March 23, 2013.

On May 16, 2014, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Purchase College, SUNY in recognition of her progressive journalism.

In February 2015, she (and Laura Poitras) received the 2014 I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.[http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/2/6/amy_goodman_honored_with_if_stone "Amy Goodman Honored with I.F. Stone Journalism Award Along with Filmmaker Laura Poitras"], Democracy Now!, February 6, 2015.

In 2016, Goodman and Democracy Now! (along with Laura Gottesdiener, John Hamilton and Denis Moynihan) received a Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists in the category of Breaking News Coverage (Network/Syndication Service/Program Service) for their piece, “Standoff at Standing Rock: Epic Native resistance to Dakota Access Pipeline.”{{cite web |title=2016 Sigma Delta Chi Award Honorees |url=https://www.spj.org/sdxa16.asp |publisher=Society of Professional Journalists |access-date=November 24, 2018}}

On February 14, 2019, she, and others, received the Frederick Douglass 200 award and was honored at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Frederick Douglass 200 award is a project of the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington D.C.{{cite web |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/14/amy_goodman_receives_frederick_douglass_200 |title=Amy Goodman Receives Frederick Douglass 200 Award |publisher=Democracy Now! |date=February 14, 2019 |access-date=February 14, 2019}} In October 2023, the NY Peace Action Network recognized her with the William Sloane Coffin "Peacemaker Award".{{cite web | url=https://www.panys.org/events | title=Events | access-date=November 6, 2023 | archive-date=November 6, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106002349/https://www.panys.org/events | url-status=dead }}

In September 2007, Goodman suffered a bout of Bell's palsy.{{cite web|url=https://www.truthdig.com/articles/for-whom-the-bells-palsy-tolls/|title=For Whom the Bell's Palsy Tolls|first=Amy|last=Goodman|date=October 31, 2007|via=TruthDig}} She practices yoga.{{Cite web|url=https://www.alternet.org/2017/10/progressive-leaders-omega-institute-retreat-amy-goodman/|title = Progressive Leaders: How to Reverse the 'Spiritual Blackout' That Trump Has Ushered into America|date = October 27, 2017}}

• 2004 – The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them co-written with her brother, Mother Jones reporter David Goodman. {{ISBN|1-4013-0799-X}}
• 2006 – Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People who Fight Back (also with David Goodman). She appeared on the Colbert Report on October 5, 2006, to promote the book. {{ISBN|1-4013-0293-9}}
• 2008 – Standing up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (also with David Goodman) details the capabilities of ordinary citizens to enact change. Was on The New York Times Best Seller list. {{ISBN|1-4013-2288-3}}
• 2009 – Breaking the Sound Barrier (with a preface by journalist Bill Moyers), an anthology of columns written for King Features Syndicate. In her first piece she wrote: "My column will include voices so often excluded, people whose views the media mostly ignore, issues they distort and even ridicule."[http://www.kingfeatures.com/pressrm/PR236.htm "Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman To Write Weekly Newspaper Column"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103124207/http://www.kingfeatures.com/pressrm/PR236.htm |date=January 3, 2010 }}, King Features press release, October 24, 2006. Retrieved December 2, 2009. {{ISBN|1-931859-99-X}}
• 2012 – The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope[http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/The-Silenced-Majority The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope] at Haymarketbooks.org. Retrieved March 23, 2013. {{ISBN|1-6084-6231-5}}
• 2016 – Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America (with David Goodman and Denis Moynihan){{cite book|last1=Goodman|first1=Amy|title=Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America|date=April 12, 2016|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-1501123580|pages=384|edition=1st}} {{ISBN|978-1501123580}}

In 2006, Goodman narrated the film One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern, a documentary chronicling the life and times of the retired Democratic politician George McGovern, focusing on his failed 1972 bid for the presidency.{{cite web|url=http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/one-bright-shining-moment-the-forgotten-summer-of-george-mcgovern-20051/|title=One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005)|date=July 24, 2006}}

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• [https://www.democracynow.org/categories/weekly_column Democracy Now columns archive] (2006-present)
• [https://www.truthdig.com/author/amy_goodman/ Goodman's column on Truthdig]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310175156/http://www.alternet.org/columnists/5721/ Amy Goodman] at AlterNet (2003-2007)
• {{Charlie Rose view|2010}}
• [http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/2/19/video_pbs_aol_feature_amy_goodman_as_part_of_makers_women_who_make_america_series VIDEO: PBS/AOL Feature Amy Goodman as Part of "Makers: Women Who Make America Series"], January 28, 2013
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• [http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/AmyGo In Depth interview with Goodman], April 7, 2013

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