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DemocracyNow! 501(c)3 Non-Profit Financial Report - Additionally, Goodman has strong ties to the Marxist IPS (Institute for policy Studies) and NPR (National Public Radio)

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DEMOCRACY NOW! (DN) P.O. Box 693
New York, NY
10013

Phone :212-431-9090
URL :http://www.democracynow.org

• Radical radio and television weekday news show and tax-exempt entity
• Created in 1996 at Pacifica Radio in New York City
• Main anchor is co-founder and radical Amy Goodman

Democracy Now! is a morning weekday newscast that (as of June 2009) could be heard on at least 800 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada, and on a number of additional stations in Europe, Australia, Mexico, and South America. It also produces a television version of each newscast, which its website (as of April 2006) says can be seen and heard on more than 250 cable TV systems, mostly on public access channels, and on subscriber satellite TV systems Direct TV and DISH network. Democracy Now! is also a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman, Pacifica anchor Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, Salim Muwakkie and Julie Drizin. Its aim was to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism. The popular hard-left show soon began airing not only in New York City but also on the other Pacifica-owned stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C.

Key figures at Democracy Now!, such as radio producer Mike Burke and television producers Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press and John Hamilton, all have backgrounds in Indymedia. Nogueira also has written for Z Magazine.

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