Amy Goodman on thirty years of Democracy Now!

For thirty years reporter Amy Goodman has been dogging presidents, politicians, oil companies, and tyrants of all kinds for her radio and television show Democracy Now ! that’s syndicated to over 1000 public television and radio stations around the world.

“I deeply believe it’s our job to go to where the silence is,” she says. “ … and you know it’s not quiet there. It’s raucous, it’s rowdy, people are organising. It just doesn’t hit the corporate radar screen. And that’s were Democracy Now! lives. I really do think independent media will save us   …it’s dissent that will save us.”

Now Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin have turned the cameras on her for their documentary Steal This Story, Please!  which is showing at the Adelaide Film Festival on 18 and 24 October and opens in select cinemas in Australia from 22 October, 2026.

Guest: Amy Goodman, journalist, co-host of Democracy Now!  Star of the new documentary film Steal this story, Please!

Producer: Catherine Zengerer