Juan González is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award for commentary and is former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is the co-host of the nationally syndicated television and radio show Democracy Now!, and he is a columnist for the New York Daily News. He has written several books, including Harvest of Empire, out in a new edition in 2011, Roll Down Your Window, and (with Joseph Torres) News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, published by Verso.