Background
Jan Goodwin was born on February 10, 1944 in London, United Kingdom.
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Jan Goodwin was born on February 10, 1944 in London, United Kingdom.
Jan educated in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Jan started her career as a diary and features editor in Women's Realm, London. Then she became news editor of London News Service, England; executive editor of Us, New York City; executive editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, New York City, form 1978 until 1988. From 1988 until 1991 she was a program manager at Save the Children Federation, Westport, CT. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent for various newspapers and as a reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio in London. She participated in Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) documentary on Afghan war, Witnesses; was a guest on television shows, including Good Morning America, Nightline, and The Today Show; guest lecturer on human rights issues; participant in president’s “Conflict Resolution Conference” (1991), and the “Religion and Human Rights Conference” (1994).
Goodwin has been a longtime human-rights activist. She received three Amnesty International UK Media Awards. Other national honors include a Frontpage Award for Outstanding Journalism for her "War Torn" series; a Clarion for an anti-child pornography series, and two Emmas for political coverage. She is the winner of the World Hunger Award and is a Soros Foundation Media Fellow, and a Senior Fellow at Brandeis University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.
She was director of United States Friends of Afghanistan committee, a member of the National Cambodia Crisis committee, the Human Rights Watch committee, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
