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==Awards and reaction== ==Awards and reaction==

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For other uses, see Democracy Now (disambiguation). Radio show
Democracy Now!
GenreNews program, current affairs
Running time60 minutes daily (M-F)
Country of originUnited States
Language(s)English
SyndicatesPacifica Radio
Hosted byAmy Goodman
Juan Gonzalez
Executive producer(s)Amy Goodman
Recording studioDowntown Community Television
New York City
Original release1996 –
present
Audio formatStereophonic
WebsiteDemocracyNow.org
PodcastAudio
Video

Democracy Now! is a United States daily progressive, independently syndicated program of news, analysis, and opinion. According to Democracy Now!, it is aired by more than 900 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America. The award-winning one hour "War and Peace Report" is hosted by investigative journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. The program is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations and does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting, or government funding.

Background

The show was located in the DCTV firehouse building (a converted firehouse) in New York City's Chinatown.

"For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information."

— Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! was founded in 1996 at WBAI-FM in New York City by progressive journalists Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Larry Bensky, Salim Muwakkil, and Julie Drizin. Goodman is the program's principal host, with Juan Gonzalez as frequent co-host. Jeremy Scahill is a frequent contributor. The Spanish version includes the daily headlines, as well as a weekly summary of the news and was begun by Andres Thomas Conteris in May 2005. The program focuses on issues its producers consider underreported or ignored by mainstream news coverage.

Syndication

WBAI states that Democracy Now! is the flagship national program of the Pacifica Radio network. The television simulcast airs on Public-access television stations; on satellite via Free Speech TV and Link TV, and free-to-air on C Band. Democracy Now! is available over the Internet, as both streaming audio and video.

Awards and reaction

"I think it's probably the most significant progressive news institution that has come around in some time."

Robert W. McChesney, The Nation

Democracy Now! and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

On October 1, 2008, Goodman was named as a recipient of the 2008 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize", in connection with her years of work establishing Democracy Now!.

Notable guests, interviews, and on-air debates

In alphabetical order

2008 GOP National Convention arrests

Three journalists with Democracy Now!—including principal host Amy Goodman, and news producers Nicole Salazar and Sharif Abdel Kouddous —were detained by police during their reporting on the 2008 Republican National Convention protests. Salazar was filming as officers in full riot gear charged her area. As she audibly yelled "Press!" she was knocked down and told to put her face in the ground while another officer dragged her backward by her leg across the pavement. The video footage of the incident was immediately posted on the internet, leading to a large public outcry against her arrest. When a second producer, Kouddous, approached, also clearly marked as a member of the press, he too was arrested, assaulted by the police and charged with a felony. According to a press release by Democracy Now!, Goodman herself was arrested after confronting officers regarding the arrest of her colleagues. The officers had established a line of "crowd control," and ordered Goodman to move back. She was arrested after being pulled through the police line by an officer, and subsequently (as well as Kouddous) had her press credentials for the convention physically stripped from her by a secret service agent. All were held on charges of "probable cause for riot." A statement was later released by the city announcing that all 'misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists' would be dropped. The felony charges against Salazar and Kouddous were also dropped. Goodman, Salazar, and Kouddous subsequently filed a lawsuit against the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis as well as other defendants.

See also

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References

  1. ^ Democracy Now! - About us
  2. Investigative Journalist Amy Goodman to Open 68th Season of The Forum
  3. Long Island University Announces Winners Of 2010 George Polk Awards In Journalism
  4. "The First Democracy Now! Show". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
  5. "About Democracy Now!". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
  6. WBAI, New York - 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio - Democracy Now!
  7. "Satellite". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2008-11-17.
  8. Amy Goodman's 'Empire' by Lizzy Ratner, The Nation, May 5, 2005
  9. Amy Goodman Wins Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television
  10. Long Island University Announces Winners of 1998 George Polk Awards
  11. "25th Annual Awards - 1993". Robert F Kennedy Memorial. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  12. "Amy Goodman". Right Livelihood Award. 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  13. "Right Livelihood Award". Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  14. Alan Dershowitz (2007-05-14). "Taking the Bait". The New Republic. Retrieved 2007-06-24.
  15. Amy Goodman (2007-09-24). "Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush's Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
    Greenspan, Alan; Goodman, Amy; Klein, Naomi (2007). Democracy Now! 9/24/07 (.RAM) (Video). Pacifica Radio. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  16. Daniel Barlett, James Steele (2007-10). "Billions over Baghdad". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2008-09-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. Amy Goodman (2007-10-09). "Mr. Greenspan is Flat Wrong: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists Respond to Alan Greenspan's Claim that He Didn't Know about Federal Reserve's Role in Iraq's Missing Billions". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2008-09-16.
  18. Democracy Now! Exclusive Interview with President Bill Clinton
  19. "Bill Clinton Loses His Cool in Democracy Now! Interview...". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  20. "Legendary Broadcaster Bill Moyers Returns to Airwaves With Critical Look at How U.S. News Media Helped Bush Admin Sell the Case for War". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  21. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Effort to Impeach Vice President Cheney Still Alive.
  22. Bolivian President Evo Morales on Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy and the Role of the Indigenous People of Bolivia.
  23. "Bolivian President Evo Morales on President Obama: "I Can't Believe a Black President Can Hold So Much Vengeance Against an Indian President". April 23, 2010.
  24. "Fmr. Presidential Candidate George McGovern on the 2008 Race and How He Helped Transform the Democratic Nominating Process". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  25. "Zinn". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  26. Hugo Chavez: “If the Imperialist Government of the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100 Years Will be Unleashed in South America”.
  27. Exclusive: Aristide Talks With Democracy Now! About His Return to the Caribbean.
  28. Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Iraq, Greeting the Shah of Iran at the White House, Selling Weapons to Indonesia During the Occupation of East Timor, and More.
  29. ^ Lori Berenson: MIT Graduate in Peruvian Prison.
  30. "Honduras Coup". Democracy Now!.
  31. "Michael Moore Calls for Renewed Pro-Democracy Movement as Anti-Union Bills Approved in Wisconsin and Michigan". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
  32. Marc Fisher (1997-02-25). "Pacifica Stations Bolt Over Convicted Killer's Commentary". The Washington Post.
  33. "Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills and Shock Doctrine American-Style: "This is a Frontal Assault on Democracy, a Corporate Coup D'Etat"". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
  34. "Ralph Nader on the G-20, Healthcare Reform, Mideast Talks and His First Work of Fiction, "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  35. "Scott Ritter on "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plans for Regime Change"". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  36. "Tariq Ali vs. Christopher Hitchens on the Occupation of Iraq: Postponed Liberation or Recolonisation?". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  37. Tariq Ali v. Christopher Hitchens: A Debate on the U.S. War on Iraq, the Bush-Kerry Race and the Neo-Conservative Movement.
  38. "EXCLUSIVE: Yoko Ono on the New Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, Art & Politics, the Peace Movement, Government Surveillance and the Murder of John Lennon". Democracynow.org. Retrieved 2010-02-09.
  39. "Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC". The Nation. September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  40. "Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC". Democracy Now!. September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  41. "Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman arrested at RNC protest". Minnesota Public Radio. September 1, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  42. ^ Karnowski, Steve (May 5, 2010). "Journalists file lawsuit in GOP convention arrests". Associated Press. Retrieved August 6, 2011.

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