Peter S. Goodman is an American economics journalist and author. Goodman worked for the Washington Post and the New York Times and was hired in September 2010 by the Huffington Post.[1]
Goodman graduated from Reed College in 1989. His newspaper career started in Kyoto writing for the Japan Times before he became a freelancing Southeast Asia correspondent for a number of newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald and London’s Daily Telegraph. He returned to the US in 1993 writing for the Anchorage Daily News covering among others early on the career of Sarah Palin. After getting a Masters in Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley he came to the Washington Post in 1999. As the Post's economic correspondent he undertook extensive travels to Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and Europe. In 2007 he joined the New York Times as a national correspondent and wrote about the financial crisis of 2008. A major contribution, The Reckoning, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a Gerald Loeb Award in 2009.
In his book Past Due Goodman analyzes the lot of the American worker who finds that his/her financial situation has not been improved over the last 15 years, namely “(b)y the fall of 2008, most American workers were bringing home roughly the same weekly wages they had earned in 1983, after accounting for inflation." [2]
His move from a respected position at a major traditional newspaper to the web-based Huffington Post was noted. Howard Kurtz wrote that Goodman indicated that at the N.Y. Times he found himself engaged in "almost a process of laundering my own views, through the tried-and-true technique of dinging someone at some think tank to say what you want to tell the reader."[3]