Ellen Goodman is an American

United States

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 journalist

Journalist

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 and Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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-winning syndicated columnist

Columnist

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Goodman worked as a researcher and reporter for Newsweek

Newsweek

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magazine between 1963 and 1965, and has worked as an associate editor at the Boston Globe since 1967.

In 1998, Goodman received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Elijah P. Lovejoy

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 Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College

Colby College

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She has compared "anthropogenic warming deniers

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" to Holocaust deniers.

Goodman announced her retirement in her final column, which ran on January 1, 2010.
Goodman was born in Newton, Massachusetts

Newton, Massachusetts

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