Steal This Story, Please!: "She broke that story, but what was important for her wasn’t “breaking” it. It was that the rest of the media paid attention and it changed the way that narrative was told."

vHopeful Conversations Podcast · Apr 7, 2026 · 42m

Fiercely independent journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, from war zones to the Democracy Now! newsroom, and in Steal This Story, Please! Oscar-nominated filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal turn their lens on her radical experiment in truly independent media. We talk about how their new film captures journalism’s power and peril in an era of media consolidation and authoritarian politics, what it means to make art as a form of resistance, and why Amy’s Jewish family newspaper, 9/11 reporting, and “trickle-up journalism” philosophy still model a…