Juan Gonzalez (journalist)

Juan González
González speaking at Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C. on Friday, October 28 2011
Born	(1947-10-15) October 15, 1947 (age 69) Ponce, Puerto Rico
Show	Democracy Now!
Station(s)	over 1000
Network	Pacifica Radio
Style	Investigative journalism

Juan González (born October 15, 1947) is an American progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter. He was also a columnist for the New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016. He frequently co-hosts the radio and television program Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

González was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on October 15, 1947, to Pepe (1915–1980), who was a veteran of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry during World War II, and Florinda (1929 –). González was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn. After a period as editor of his high school newspaper, the Lane Reporter, González attended Columbia College and graduated in the mid-1960s. At Columbia College he was active in the anti-Vietnam War movement and played a leading role in the protests that shut down the college in spring 1968 as one of three "Strike Central" representatives on the strike coordinating committee. In the student strike that followed the police riot that ended the occupation he continued in this role and in negotiations at the apartment of Eugene Galanter. He was a member of Students for a Democratic Society and a founding member of the New York City branch of the Young Lords, serving on its first central committee as its Minister of Education.