Lauren Fantone

 Amy Goodman  Written by: Lauren Fantone Amy Goodman. Credit: Democracy Now! Personal Background      Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, and broadcast reporter best known for her coverage on the East Timor independence movement and Chevron Corporation's role in Nigeria. Her independent and unbiased approach to political journalism - bringing millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded from mainstream media outlets - led her to receive the 2008 Livelihood Award, a prestigious award known as the equivalent to the Nobel Prize, marking her the first journalist to be honored. Her outstanding political work and relentless approach to investigative journalism has earned her various prestigious awards and recognitions including the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award, while also being a co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media's Izzy Award, later being inducted i...