Ellen Goodman

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{{Short description|American journalist and writer}}
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|caption = Goodman gives a TEDx Talk
|alma_mater = [[Radcliffe College]]
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|prizes = [[Pulitzer Prize]] 1980
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'''Ellen Goodman''' (born April 11, 1941) is an American [[journalist]] and syndicated [[columnist]]. She won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1980.<ref name=pulitzer/> She is also a speaker and commentator.

==Career==
Goodman's career began as a researcher and reporter for ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine between 1963 and 1965. She was a reporter at the ''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' starting in 1965 and has worked as an associate editor at ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' since 1967. Her column was syndicated by [[The Washington Post Writers Group]] in 1976.

In 1996, she taught at [[Stanford University]] as the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting professor in Professional Journalism.<ref name="ellengoodman.com">[http://www.ellengoodman.com/bio.html Profile], ellengoodman.com; accessed March 29, 2015.</ref>
In 1998, Goodman received the [[Elijah P. Lovejoy|Elijah Parish Lovejoy]] Award as well as an honorary [[Doctor of Laws]] degree from [[Colby College]]. She compared "[[Global warming controversy|anthropogenic warming deniers]]" to holocaust deniers.<ref>Ellen Goodman, [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate "No Change in Political Climate"], ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', February 9, 2007.</ref> She announced her retirement in her final column, which ran on January 1, 2010.<ref>Ellen Goodman, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123101743_2.html "Ellen Goodman writes of letting go in her final column"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', January 1, 2010.</ref>

==Education==
Goodman attended [[Brookline High School]] in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]] for two years and graduated in 1959 from Buckingham School, now [[Buckingham Browne & Nichols]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Ritchie|first=Anne|title=Ellen Goodman Interview #1|url=http://beta.wpcf.org/oralhistory/good1.html|work=Washington Press Club Foundation|access-date=December 30, 2013|date=April 9, 1993}}</ref> She graduated [[cum laude]] from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1963 with a degree in modern European history. A year later, she returned to [[Harvard]] as a [[Nieman Fellow]]. At Harvard, Goodman studied the dynamics of social change. In 2007, Goodman studied gender and the news at [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] where she was a [[Shorenstein Fellow]].<ref name="ellengoodman.com"/>

==Personal life==
Goodman was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref name=JJLeft>[http://www.jewishjournal.com/dennis_prager/article/when_jews_on_the_left_see_americans_on_the_right_as_nazis_20100504 Jewish Journal: "When Jews on the Left See Americans on the Right as Nazis" by Dennis Prager] May 4, 2010</ref><ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-23-op-14498-story.html Los Angeles Times: "Of Secrecy and Paranoia: What Is Inman's Real Story?" by Suzanne Garment] January 23, 1994 |''Inman named five journalists who had treated him badly: Safire, Tony Lewis, Ellen Goodman, the cartoonist Herblock and Rita Braver. All five are Jewish''</ref> in [[Newton, Massachusetts]], to Jackson Jacob Holtz, and Edith (née Weinstein) Holtz. Her elder sister was the late critic and author [[Jane Holtz Kay]]. She married her first husband, Anthony Goodman, in 1963 and in 1968, gave birth to their daughter Katie Goodman, a musical comedian.<ref>[http://www.postwritersgroup.com/goodman.htm Profile] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218152256/http://www.postwritersgroup.com/goodman.htm |date=December 18, 2010 }}, postwritersgroup.com; accessed March 29, 2015.</ref> After the couple divorced, she married [[The Boston Globe|''Boston Globe'']] journalist Robert Levey in 1982. Her stepson, Gregory Levey, died by self-immolation in 1991 protesting the [[Desert Storm|First Gulf War]].<ref>[http://warisacrime.org/content/twenty-years-ago-today-immolation-revolutions-now-and-ones-come "Twenty Years Ago Today – Immolation Revolutions Now; And the Ones to Come"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102184759/http://warisacrime.org/content/twenty-years-ago-today-immolation-revolutions-now-and-ones-come |date=2013-11-02 }}, warisacrime.org; accessed March 29, 2015.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131105042155/http://articles.philly.com/1991-02-20/news/25773821_1_substitute-teacher-amherst-professional-development Amherst Suicide Victim Was A Substitute Teacher], articles.philly.com; accessed March 29, 2015.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/20/us/amherst-journal-candles-in-the-snow-honor-suffering.html Amherst Journal; Candles in the Snow Honor Suffering].</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131103062614/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1991-02-24/news/9101100388_1_anti-war-activists-gulf-war-charles-donahue "He Was An 'Undramatic Guy' Town Remembers Man Who Set Himself Afire Over Gulf War"], articles.sun-sentinel.com; accessed March 29, 2015.</ref>

==Awards==
Goodman won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Commentary]] in 1980.<ref name=pulitzer>[http://www.pulitzer.org/faceted_search/results/ellen-goodman Profile], pulitzer.org; accessed March 29, 2015; retrieved 2013-10-31.</ref> Another accolade is the American Society of Newspaper Editors' (now the [[American Society of News Editors]]) Distinguished Writing Award (1980). In 1988, Goodman won the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award from the [[Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights|Leadership Conference on Civil Rights]].<ref>{{cite web|title=1988 Humphrey Award Recipients|url=http://www.civilrights.org/dinner/1988|work=The Leadership Conference website|access-date=December 31, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231205333/http://www.civilrights.org/dinner/1988/|archive-date=December 31, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She was awarded the President's Award by the [[National Women's Political Caucus]] in 1993. A year later, she was given the American Woman Award by the Women's Research & Education Institute.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Woman Award |url=http://www.wrei.org/AWA.htm |work=The Women's Research & Education Institute |access-date=December 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006112731/http://www.wrei.org/AWA.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2006 }}</ref> In 2008, she won the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lifetime Achievement Hall of Fame|url=http://www.columnists.com/awards/nsnc-hall-of-fame|work=National Society of Newspaper Columnists website|access-date=December 31, 2013}}</ref> She was awarded the [[Ashoka (non-profit organization)|Ashoka]] Fellowship in 2014 for her work.

==The Conversation Project==
In 2010, Goodman started "The Conversation Project", a group dedicated to the wishes of [[end-of-life care]]. Goodman serves as the co-founder and director of the group.

==Books==
* ''Turning Points'' (1979)
* ''Close to Home'' (1979)
* ''At Large'' (1981)
* ''Keeping in Touch'' (1985)
* ''Making Sense'' (1989)
* ''Value Judgments'' (1993)
* ''I Know Just What You Mean: the power of friendship in women's lives'' (2000), by Goodman and Patricia O'Brien
* ''Paper Trail: common sense in uncommon times'' (2004)

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|last1=Wymard|first1=Ellie|title=Conversations with uncommon women insights from women who've risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success|date=1999|publisher=AMACOM|location=New York|isbn=0585119872|oclc=77354855}}

==External links==
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* {{official website |www.ellengoodman.com/ }}
* [https://bostonglobe.com/news/resources/bio.aspx?id=4192 Brief bio] at the Boston Globe
* [http://theconversationproject.org/about/ellen-goodman/ Conversation Project]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120122192310/http://archive.truthout.org/articles/by-author/external/Ellen+Goodman Ellen Goodman Articles]
* {{LCAuth|n78087879|Ellen Goodman|10|}}
* {{C-SPAN|1662}}

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