Editing Democracy Now! (section)

{{Short description|American TV, radio, and internet news program}}
{{redirect|Democracy Now}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}
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{{Infobox radio show
| name = Democracy Now!
| image = Democracy Now! logo.svg
| format = [[News program]], [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]]
| runtime = 60 minutes daily (Monday thru Friday)
| rec_location = New York City
| home_station = [[WBAI]]
| syndicates = {{ubl|[[Pacifica Radio]] (radio)|[[WestLink]] (television)}}
| presenter = {{ubl|[[Amy Goodman]] (principal host)|[[Juan González (journalist)|Juan González]] (frequent co-host)|Nermeen Shaikh (frequent co-host)}}
| producer = [[Mike Burke (journalist)|Mike Burke]]
| exec_producer = Amy Goodman
| first_aired = {{Start date and age|1996|02|19}}
| last_aired = present
| audio_format = Stereophonic sound
| opentheme = "Need to Know" by [[Incognito (band)|Incognito]]
| endtheme = "[[Kid You'll Move Mountains]]" by [[Dan Snaith|Manitoba]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.democracynow.org}}
}}
'''''Democracy Now!''''' is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in [[Manhattan]] and hosted by journalists [[Amy Goodman]] (who also acts as the show's executive producer), [[Juan González (journalist)|Juan González]],<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=October 23, 2011 |title=A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/business/media/a-grass-roots-newscast-gives-a-voice-to-struggles.html |url-access=registration |access-date=October 23, 2011 |archive-date=June 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625150230/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/business/media/a-grass-roots-newscast-gives-a-voice-to-struggles.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Marmura99"/> and Nermeen Shaikh. The show, which airs live each weekday at 8 a.m. [[Eastern Time]], is broadcast on the Internet and via more than 1,400 radio and television stations worldwide.<ref name=directory>{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/stations |title=Democracy Now Stations |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927080307/https://www.democracynow.org/stations |url-status=live }}</ref>

The program combines news reporting, interviews, investigative journalism and political commentary from a progressive perspective. It documents social movements, struggles for justice, activism challenging corporate power and operates as a watchdog outfit regarding the effects of [[American foreign policy]].<ref name="Marmura99"/> ''Democracy Now!'' views as its aim to give activists and the citizenry a platform to debate people from "[[the establishment]]".<ref name="Marmura99"/> The show is described as [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]]<ref name="Fish59">{{harvnb|Fish|2017|p=59.}}</ref> by fans as well as critics, but Goodman rejects that label, calling the program a global newscast that has "people speaking for themselves".<ref name="NYT" /> ''Democracy Now!'' describes its staff as "includ[ing] some of this country's leading progressive journalists."<ref>{{cite web |title=Staff |url=https://www.democracynow.org/about/staff |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-date=March 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316233438/https://www.democracynow.org/about/staff |url-status=live }}</ref>

Democracy Now Productions, the independent media nonprofit organization that produces ''Democracy Now!,''<ref name="Marmura99"/> is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers,<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl85">{{cite book|last1=Grigoryan|first1=Nune|last2=Suetzl|first2=Wolfgang|chapter=Hybridized political participation|editor1-last=Atkinson|editor1-first=Joshua D.|editor2-last=Kenix|editor2-first=Linda|title=Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising|year=2019|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781498584357|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now%21|pages=185|access-date=November 5, 2020|archive-date=October 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007062332/https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ&q=Democracy+Now!#v=snippet&q=Democracy%20Now!&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> and foundations such as the [[Park Foundation]],<ref>[https://parkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1st-quarter-2020-Grants-Awarded.pdf Park Foundation – Grants Awarded – 1st Quarter 2020] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715130954/https://parkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/1st-quarter-2020-Grants-Awarded.pdf |date=July 15, 2022 }} (PDF), p. 6.</ref> [[Ford Foundation]],<ref>[https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1531/ar2004.pdf Ford Foundation Annual Report 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213081523/https://www.fordfoundation.org/media/1531/ar2004.pdf |date=February 13, 2021 }} (PDF), p. 129.</ref> [[Lannan Foundation]],<ref>[https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/download-filing?path=2009_08_PF%2F36-6062451_990PF_200812.pdf ProPublica – Form 990 Return of Lannan Foundation 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007062333/https://pp-990.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2009_08_PF/36-6062451_990PF_200812.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA266MJEJYTM5WAG5Y%2F20231007%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20231007T062332Z&X-Amz-Expires=1800&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=9722a1caa3811c18a3db52b6acbdcce0936550413d2c1f62167fb491fac6771f |date=October 7, 2023 }} (PDF), p. 148.</ref> and the J.M. Kaplan Fund.<ref>[[Sourcewatch]] (June 7, 2013) [https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kaplan_Fund Kaplan Fund] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805114637/https://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kaplan_Fund |date=August 5, 2020 }} – [[Center for Media and Democracy]]</ref><ref>[https://irasilver.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Reading-Foundations-Feldman.pdf Feldman, Bob (2007). Report from the Field: Left Media and Left Think Tanks – Foundation-Managed Protest?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921223113/http://irasilver.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Reading-Foundations-Feldman.pdf |date=September 21, 2020 }} (PDF), pp. 11, 14.</ref> It has over $36&nbsp;million in assets and about a $10&nbsp;million annual budget.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Democracy Now Productions (Democracy Now!) |url=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-now-productions/ |access-date=March 14, 2023 |website=InfluenceWatch |language=en-US |archive-date=March 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314020543/https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-now-productions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' does not accept advertisers, corporate underwriting or government funding.<ref name="aboutus">{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/about |title=About Democracy Now |publisher=Democracy Now |access-date=May 7, 2016 |archive-date=January 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116232950/https://www.democracynow.org/about |url-status=live }}</ref> The show has become popular on the internet, and from the late 2010s onward, has been involved in pioneering extensive media cooperation in the public sphere across the US.<ref name="Marmura99"/>