Democracy Now! is a daily independant news program hosted by progressive investigative journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. It is unique in that it typically focuses on stories that are under-reported by mainstream media.
Audience: Airs on more than than 900 radio, television, satellite and cable TV networks in North America.
Funding: Contributions from its audience are the main source of funding for the news program, which does not collaborate with advertisers, corporations. They do not receive any government funding.
Featured Stories:
Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship
This radio documentary won the George Polk Award in 1988 for exposing the death of two Nigerian Villagers who died protesting a Chevron oil spill. You can listen to the full documentary here.
Massacre: The Story of East Timor
Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now! and Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for this 1993 documentary exposing the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians.
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