Merrill Goozner, is an American journalist, author and educator. He served as editor of Modern Healthcare and ModernHealthcare.com, a weekly news magazine and daily news website covering the healthcare industry, from December 2012 to April 2017. Since then, he writes a weekly column for the magazine as well as writes and edits GoozNews, an online newsletter.
His prior career included five years as a printer with the Cincinnati Post; five years as Cincinnati director of the Ohio Public Interest Campaign (and writer/editor of the Cincinnati AFL-CIO Chronicle); a year as reporter for the Hammond (Ind.) Times; four years with Crain's Chicago Business; 13 years with the Chicago Tribune, including four years as Tokyo bureau chief and Chief Asia Correspondent (1991–95) and two years as Chief Economics Correspondent (1998-2000). He subsequently became a professor of business journalism at New York University (2000-2003) and director of the Integrity in Science Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (2004-2009).
Personal
Born in 1950 in New York City, Goozner graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in history and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1982. In 2008, the University of Cincinnati awarded him as Distinguished Alumni Award.[1]
Appearances
Goozner's work has appeared in a number of publications which include, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect and the Washington Monthly.[2]
Books
Goozner is the author of The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs (ISBN 0-520-23945-8) which was published by the University of California Press.[3]
References
- ↑ "Modern Healthcare names new editor, Award-winning healthcare and business journalist Merrill Goozner to assume post in December". Modern Health Care. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ "Merrill Goozner". The Fiscal Times. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ "Merrill Goozner". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 5 April 2013.