Amy Goodman, best-selling author and award-winning executive producer and host of the national independent news program Democracy Now!, will address the role of independent media in promoting social justice on Monday, September 27, 7pm, in an evening talk hosted by the Calhoun 2010-2011 Performing Arts Series. A Q&A and signing of her latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, will follow the talk. Tickets for the event,which is being held in the Mary Lea Johnson Performing Arts Center at The Calhoun School, 433 West End Avenue @ 81st Street, are $5 for seniors and students; $10 for adults, and may be purchased online at www.calhoun.org/reservations.
Ms. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award--widely known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize"-- for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria has won numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She has also received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Project Censored. Ms. Goodman was one of the first recipients of Independent Media's Izzy Award. PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009, and she received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting in 2007 for a weekly podcast syndicated by King Features. Time Magazine named Democracy Now its "Pick of the Podcasts."
The author of four New York Times best sellers, Ms. Goodman's latest book, Breaking the Sound Barrier, proves the power of independent journalism in the struggle for a better world. She co-authored the first three bestsellers 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). For more information about Amy Goodman, see http://www.democracynow.org/.
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