Amy Goodman

Thu April 8, 2027 at 6:30PM

Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre

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Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national daily independent news program airing on more than 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. Goodman is the subject of Steal This Story, Please!, a 2025 documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. The film opened the DC/DOX Film Festival, screened at the Telluride Film Festival, and has won audience awards at festivals including Palm Springs and Santa Barbara.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She became the first journalist honored with the Right Livelihood Award recognizing an innovative model of independent, grassroots political journalism that reaches audiences often excluded by mainstream media. She was also the first co-recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, and was later inducted into the Park Center’s I.F. Stone Hall of Fame. The Independent of London called Goodman and Democracy Now! an inspiration.

Goodman has co-authored six New York Times bestsellers. Her latest, Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America, looks back over two decades of the program and the movements that shaped it. Two earlier books were written with Denis Moynihan, with whom she also co-writes a syndicated weekly column recognized with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting. Her first three bestsellers were co-authored with her brother, journalist David Goodman.

Her reporting on East Timor and Nigeria earned Goodman the George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award.

About the series

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has been described as a rupture – from democratic norms, from the post-war alliance system, from established economic models, and from the rules-based international order the United States itself built. Historians remind us, however, the pressures at play in this political moment are not new. American unilateralism, economic disruption, and democratic backsliding have deep roots and did not necessarily arrive with any one administration.

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moderator

Peter Klein

with Amy Goodman

Three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, Professor at UBC

Peter Klein is a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. He's a full professor at UBC's School of Journalism, Writing and Media, and a faculty affiliate at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He's also the founder and director of the Global Reporting Centre, a Faculty of Arts-based journalism non-profit. He was previously executive editor of NBC News, overseeing investigative reporting at the network, was a longtime producer at CBS News 60 Minutes, and was one of the founding producers of The New York Times' video unit.

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