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ELLEN GOODMAN
Subjects
current events, media & journalism
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Ellen Goodman's insight, common sense,
and verbal flair have attracted a fervent national following since 1976,
when her Boston Globe column was first syndicated by the Washington Post
Writers Group.
Today, her column appears on op-ed pages
in over 440 newspapers across the country. Goodman has been with the
Boston Globe, where she is an associate editor as well as a columnist,
since 1967.
She was graduated from Radcliffe College,
cum laude, in 1963. and spent 1973-1974 at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow.
1n 1980, she received the Pulitzer
Prize for Distinguished Commentary.
Her book on social change, Turning
Points, was published in 1979. Five collections of her columns have also
been published: Close to Home (1979), At Large (1981), Keeping in Touch
(1985), Making Sense (1989), and Value Judgments (1993). A new book,
written with Patricia O'Brien, titled I Know Just What You Mean: The Power
of Friendship in Women's Lives, was published by Simon & Schuster in
May 2000.
Goodman's reporting has earned her
numerous awards, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors
Distinguished Writing Award in 1980. The Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights awarded her the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award in 1988 for
her dedication to the cause of equality. In 1993, she received the
President's Award From the National Women's Political Caucus at its
Seventh Annual .Exceptional Merit Media Award Ceremony. The Women's
Research & Education Institute presented her with their American Woman
Award in 1994. She was awarded the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for
journalism at Colby College in 1998. In 1999 she received the
International Matrix Award from the Association for Women in
Communications.
In 1996, Ellen Goodman was the first
Lorry 1. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism at Stanford
University.
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