PENNY W. STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES

September 21, 2006

Amy Goodman

War, Elections, and Independent Media

The host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, independent news program, Amy Goodman is also an investigative journalist who has reported from Qatar, East Timor, Nigeria, Mexico, Haiti and Cuba. Goodman is the co-author, with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of the New York Times best seller, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them.

Co-sponsored by the Knight-Wallace Fellows Program and the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

Video

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Selected Bibliography

• AlterNet: Author: Amy Goodman
• Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Host and Executive Producer - A BuzzFlash Interview
• Amy Goodman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Amy Goodman's 'Empire'
• Democracy Now!: radio and TV news
• Block, Jennifer. "A dose of Democracy, Now." The Village Voice 47.3 (2002): 48.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/. Just type in the name of the journal, then select the correct volume/issue.
• Nall, Jeff. "THE HUMANIST INTERVIEW: The Pursuit of Truth: An Interview with Amy Goodman." The Humanist 66.3 (2006): 14.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/. Just type in the name of the journal, then select the correct volume/issue.
• Olson, Karen. "On the frontlines." The Utne Reader.110 (2002): 82.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/. Just type in the name of the journal, then select the correct volume/issue.
• Chomsky, Noam, Paul Farmer and Amy Goodman. Getting Haiti right this time : the U.S. and the coup. Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, 2004.
  Location: Hatcher Graduate and Shapiro Undergraduate
  Call Number: E 902 .G661 2004
• Goodman, Amy, and David Goodman. The exception to the rulers : exposing oily politicians, war profiteers, and the media that love them. New York : Hyperion, 2004.
  Location: Hatcher Graduate and Shapiro Undergraduate
  Call Number: E 183.8 .H2 C471 2004