A Massachusetts native, journalist, speaker and
commentator Ellen Goodman was born on this date in 1941, and her reporting and commentary have always "got it right."
Wanting to be a historian, she earned her
first degree in that field but then quickly gravitated to writing after taking
a “temporary” job in 1963 as a researcher at Newsweek magazine. With reporting credits for the Detroit Free Press and the Boston Globe,where she first tried out
her award-winning social commentary column, she's been a keen observer of the human condition, speaking out on social issues and presenting thoughts and ideas read millions around the globe.
The first woman to be published on a major newspaper's Op-Ed Page
and the first to have a regular column, she has been a member of the Washington Post Writers Group since
1976. Her ground-breaking writings have not
only tackled the most important social issues of our day, but have inspired
writers for the past four decades.
Ellen
Goodman
Author of 8 books, and winner of the Pulitzer
Prize for commentary, she also has earned the American Society of News Editors’
Distinguished Writing Award, the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award, and the
National Women’s Political Caucus President's Award.
And in 2008, she was honored with the Ernie Pyle
Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Society of Newspaper
Columnists, and noted, “I think that having a job in
journalism, despite all of the changes, is still a fantastic way to be – to make
a living observing your society and having a chance to use your voice.”
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