Samina Sultana
These are the updates I've made to Ellen Goodman's Wikipedia page as part of my assignment for CCT110.
Ellen Goodman Goodman is also a speaker and commentator. She is noted for being one of the first women to openly discuss women's rights. [1]
Career
editGoodman's career began w as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek magazine between 1963 and 1965, was a reporter on 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 as the first Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism.[2] In 1998, Goodman received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. She has compared "anthropogenic warming deniers" to Holocaust deniers.[3] Goodman announced her retirement in her final column, which ran on January 1, 2010.[4]
Education
editGoodman 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. [5] In 2007, Goodman studied gender and the news at John F. Kennedy School of Government where she was a Shorenstein Fellow.[6]
Awards
editIn 1980, Goodman won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1980. Some of her other accolades include the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, which she won the same year. In 1988, at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Goodman won the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award. 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. In 2008, she won the Ernie Pyle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper columnists. [7]
The Conservation Project
editIn 2010, Goodman started the Conservation Project. A group dedicated to the wishes of end-of-life care. Goodman serves as the Co-founder and Director of the group. [8]
References
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- ^ Ellen Goodman, "No Change in Political Climate", The Boston Globe, February 9, 2007
- ^ Ellen Goodman, "Ellen Goodman writes of letting go in her final column", The Washington Post, January 1, 2010
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- ^ [5]
- ^ [6]
External links
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- Ellen Goodman Website
- Ellen Goodman official website
- Brief bio, with links to published columns at The Washington Post Writers Group
- Brief bio at the Boston Globe
- Conservation Project
- Ellen Goodman Articles