Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman began her career in community radio in 1985
at Pacifica Radio's New York Station, WBAI. She produced WBAI's
Evening News for 10 years.
In 1990 and 1991, Amy traveled to East Timor to report on the US-backed
Indonesian occupation of East Timor. There, she and colleague Allan Nairn
witnessed Indonesian soldiers gun down 270 East Timorese. Indonesian soldiers
beat Amy and Allan, fracturing Allan's skull. Their documentary, "Massacre:
The Story of East Timor" won numerous awards, 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 the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting.
In 1996, Amy helped launch Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now!. Two years later, Amy and producer Jeremy Scahill went to Nigeria. Their radio documentary "Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship" exposed Chevron's role in the killing of two Nigerian villagers in the Niger Delta, who were protesting yet another oil spill in their community. That documentary won the George Polk Award, the Golden Reel for Best National Documentary from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and a Project Censored award. In 1999, Amy Goodman traveled to Peru to interview American political prisoner Lori Berenson. It was the first time a journalist had ever gotten into the prison to speak to her.
David Goodman
David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist and the author of five
books, including the critically acclaimed Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New
South Africa (University of California Press, 1999; revised paperback, 2002).
Archbishop Desmond Tutu hailed Fault Lines as "a searingly honest book by someone
who really knows his subject."
David Goodman is also a Contributing Writer for Mother Jones, and his articles
have appeared in The Washington Post, Outside, The Washington Quarterly, Christian
Science Monitor, Boston Globe, The Nation, Newsday, The Village Voice, National
Geographic Adventure, and numerous other publications. Goodman has appeared often
as a guest on national radio and television shows, including PBS NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, Pacifica Radio, NPR's Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, CNN's Voices of the
Millennium, and CNN World News.
David lives with his wife and two children in Vermont.