Editing Democracy Now! (section)

=== Studios ===
[[File:DCTV-DN-firehouse-800x600.jpg|thumb|From 2001 to 2009, the show was located in the [[Downtown Community Television Center|DCTV]] firehouse building (a converted firehouse) in New York City's [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]].]]
''Democracy Now!'' began as a radio program broadcast from the studios of [[WBAI]], a local [[Pacifica Radio]] station in New York City. In early September 2001, amid a months-long debate over the mission and management of Pacifica, ''Democracy Now!'' was forced out of the WBAI studios. Goodman took the program to the [[Downtown Community Television Center]] located in a converted firehouse building in New York City's [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]], where the program began to be televised.<ref name="Common Dreams">{{cite web |last1=Ratner |first1=Lizzy |title=Amy Goodman's 'Empire' How a prospective biochemist became a muckraker and champion of media reform |url=http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-22.htm |website=commondreams.org |access-date=July 23, 2014 |date=May 6, 2005 |archive-date=May 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508002429/http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0506-22.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez">{{cite web |title=Farewell to the Firehouse: After 8 Years at Downtown Community Television Landmark, Democracy Now! Moves to New Home |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/firehouse |work=Democracy Now! |access-date=February 8, 2014 |author=Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez |date=November 13, 2009 |archive-date=February 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207182842/http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/firehouse |url-status=live }}</ref> Only a few days later on September 11, 2001 ''Democracy Now!'' was the closest national broadcast to [[Ground Zero#World Trade Center|Ground Zero]]. On that day Goodman and colleagues continued reporting beyond their scheduled hour-long time slot in what became an eight-hour marathon broadcast. Following [[9/11]], in addition to radio and television, ''Democracy Now!'' expanded their multimedia reach to include [[cable television|cable]], [[satellite radio]], Internet, and [[podcasts]].<ref name="Common Dreams" />

In November 2009, ''Democracy Now!'' left their broadcast studio in the converted DCTV firehouse, where they had broadcast for eight years, and moved to a repurposed graphic arts building in the [[Chelsea, Manhattan|Chelsea]] neighborhood of Manhattan.<ref name="Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez" /> In 2010, the new 8,500-square-foot<ref>{{cite web |title=Democracy Now! Broadcast Studio Targeting LEED-CI Platinum at 207 West 25th Street |url=http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2009/07/06/democracy-now-broadcast-studio-targeting-leed-ci-platinum-at-207-west-25th-street/ |publisher=Green Buildings NYC |access-date=February 8, 2014 |date=July 6, 2009 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222032513/http://www.greenbuildingsnyc.com/2009/07/06/democracy-now-broadcast-studio-targeting-leed-ci-platinum-at-207-west-25th-street/ |archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> ''Democracy Now!'' studio became the first radio or television studio in the nation to receive [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED Platinum]] certification,<ref>{{cite web |last=Holland |first=Ben |title=Democracy Now! Goes Green |url=http://www.rmi.org/DemocracyNowGoesGreen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208145647/http://www.rmi.org/DemocracyNowGoesGreen |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 8, 2012 |publisher=Rocky Mountain Institute |access-date=February 8, 2014 |date=August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=LEED Certification—Democracy Now! |url=http://www.ers-inc.com/index.php/projects/sustainable-buildings/leed-certification-democracy-now |publisher=Energy Resource Solutions |access-date=February 8, 2014 |year=2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131052916/http://www.ers-inc.com/index.php/projects/sustainable-buildings/leed-certification-democracy-now |archive-date=January 31, 2014}}</ref> the highest rating awarded by the [[U.S. Green Building Council]].