Ellen Goodman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, was a Goldsmith Fellow at the Center. Goodman began her career as a researcher for Newsweek magazine, before becoming a reporter for the Detroit Free Press in 1965. She joined the Boston Globe as a reporter in 1967 and became a full-time columnist in 1974. A 1963 graduate of Radcliffe College, Goodman returned to Harvard in 1973 as a Nieman Fellow. Goodman has published many books, including six collections of her columns and I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women’s Lives, which she co-authored with Patricia O’Brien. A syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1980. Goodman’s research at the Shorenstein Center addressed the question of a new gender gap in news media and the Internet.
A Great Divide in a Historic Campaign
April 15, 2008
April 15, 2008 – “A Great Divide in a Historic Campaign.” Brown-bag lunch with Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
