Ellen Goodman Biography

Ellen Goodman has spent most of her life chronicling social change and its impact on American life. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist she was one of the first women to open up the op-ed pages to women's voices and became according to Media Watch the most widely syndicated progressive columnist in the country. She continues that from her observation post now as a writer speaker and commentator.
Goodman began her career as a researcher for Newsweek magazine in the days when only men wrote for the newsweekly. She landed a job as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965 and in 1967 for The Boston Globe where she began writing her column in 1974. It's been syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group since 1976.
A 1963 cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College Goodman returned to Harvard in 1973-74 as a Nieman Fellow where she studied the dynamics of social change. In 2007 she was a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government where she studied gender and the news. As the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism she taught at Stanford in 1996.

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