Amy Goodman

A 1998 recipient of the George Polk Award
for the radio documentary "Drilling and Killing:
Chevron and Nigeria's Military Dictatorship,"
in which she and co-producer Jeremy Scahill
exposed the oil company's role in the killing of
two Nigerian villagers on May 28, 1998.

They were also awarded the Golden Reel for
Best National Documentary from the National
Federation of Community Broadcasters.
Project Censored selected the documentary as
one of the "10 Most Censored Stories of 1998".

They also were honored
by the Overseas Press Club, a citation they rejected
because of the Club's agreement that journalists not
question the keynote speaker US Special Envoy
Richard Holbrooke at the awards dinner, in the midst
of the US bombing of Yugoslavia.

Goodman and Scahill co-wrote two articles in The
Nation magazine on the Chevron-related killings.

Goodman has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary she co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn, MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor," including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as
well as awards from AP, UPI, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting .

In 1991 Goodman and Nairn survived a massacre in East Timor in which Indonesian soldiers gunned down more than 250 Timorese. The Indonesian military banned them from returning.

Goodman has reported from Israel and the Occupied
territories, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti and was the first journalist ever to interview the jailed US citizen Lori Berenson, serving a life sentence in Peru. Goodman also broadcast the first US radio interview with imprisoned East Timor rebel leader Xanana Gusmao.

In addition to her daily radio shows, Goodman speaks around the country on university campuses, as well as to human rights, church and community groups about media activism. She also runs workshops at community radio stations on grassroots coverage.

Listen to her show Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/index10.htm