Background
Goodman, Ellen Holtz was born on April 11, 1941 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Jackson Jacob and Edith (Weinstein) Holtz.
Goodman, Ellen Holtz was born on April 11, 1941 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Jackson Jacob and Edith (Weinstein) Holtz.
Goodman attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts for two years and graduated in 1959 from Buckingham School, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols. 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.
She is also a speaker and commentator. 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. She compared "anthropogenic warming deniers" to holocaust deniers.
She announced her retirement in her final column, which ran on January 1, 2010. In 2010, Goodman started "", a group dedicated to the wishes of end-of-life care.
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Trustee Radcliffe College. Judge Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, since 1986.
Married Robert Levey. 1 daughter, Katherine Anne.