Democracy Now! Live Broadcast
Presenters
- Juan Gonzalez
Democracy Now!/ New York Daily News
Juan Gonzalez is co-host with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 800 TV and radio stations in North America. He has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years and a staff columnist at the New York Daily News since 1987.
Gonzalez is a founder and past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. During his tenure at NAHJ, Gonzalez created the Parity Project, an innovative program that creates partnerships between local communities and media organizations to improve coverage of the Latino community and to recruit and retain more Hispanic journalists. He also spearheaded a successful movement among U.S. journalists to join other citizen groups in opposing the Federal Communications Commission’s deregulation of media ownership restrictions.
A founding member of the Young Lords Party in the 1970s and of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights in 1980s, Gonzalez has twice been named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the country’s most influential Hispanics and has received lifetime achievement awards from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the National Council of La Raza and the National Puerto Rican Coalition. He also received the 1998 George Polk Award for commentary.
Gonzalez has written three books: Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse; Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America; and Roll Down Your Window: Stories of a Forgotten America. He is currently completing a book on the history of racism in the U.S. news media.
- Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman is the executive producer and co-host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on more than 800 TV and radio stations in North America.
Goodman is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including, most recently, Breaking the Sound Barrier. She co-authored the first three books with her brother, journalist David Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008); Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006); and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast), for which she won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award. She is also one of the first recipients of the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. She has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media's She's Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria won the George Polk Award; Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting; and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award. Goodman also received the first-ever Communication for Peace Award and was honored by the National Council of Teachers of English with the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.
- When
- Friday, April 8, 8:00am - 9:00am
- Where
- Commonwealth Complex
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Join the audience to watch a live broadcast of Democracy Now! -- the national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the United States, Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, NPR, community, and college radio stations; on public access, PBS, satellite television and on the internet. Special guests will join the hosts at the Boston Seaport.
