Peter Goodman Roundtable
4-5 p.m., Eliot 207
Thursday, November 19th

Peter S. Goodman has been a national economic correspondent for the New York Times since 2007. He began his career as a freelancer in Southeast Asia writing for several American newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Morning News, before working for a decade as a staff writer at the Washington Post, for which he spent five years in China as the newspaper’s Asian economic correspondent and five in New York as the international economics correspondent. Goodman was part of a team of New York Times reporters whose 2008 series, The Reckoning, on the origins of the financial crisis, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The same series garnered a Loeb award, the so-called Pulitzer of business and economic reporting. While at the Post, Goodman won the 2005 Hugo Shong Journalist of the Year Award, conferred by Boston University’s school of communications for the best reporting from Asia, for a series on China’s impacts on the global economy. Goodman's book, Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy, about how Main Street was hit by—and might recover from—the financial crisis, is being published by Times Books in 2009.

Please note: RSVP to Leah Faw (fawl@reed.edu) by noon on the 19th!