Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of "Democracy Now! "An award-winning journalist, she has won the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize; a lifetime achievement award from Harvard s Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the George Polk Award; Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting; and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. Amy is the "New York Times" bestselling author, with Denis Moynihan, of "The Silenced Majority "and "Breaking the Sound Barrier"; and with David Goodman, of "Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America", and "The Exception to the Rulers".