Geoffrey Goodman, Esq, CBE

Career: RAF 1941-46; journalist, author and broadcaster; reporter: Manchester Guardian 1946-47, News Chronicle 1947-60; industrial ed and columnist: Daily Herald 1960-64, The Sun 1964-69, Daily Mirror 1969-86 (asst ed 1976-86), ret; presenter and commentator various news and current affrs items for BBC and London News Radio, current affrs commentator various TV and radio progs; chm emeritus Br Journalism Review 2002- (founding ed 1989-2002), assoc fell Nuffield Coll Oxford (fell 1974-76), memb and jt author of Minority report Royal Cmmn on the Press 1974-77, head Govt Counter-Inflation Unit 1975-76; chm Hugh Cudlipp Tst 2004-; fell Soc of Ed; Descriptive Writer of the Year 1972, Gerald Barry Award for Journalism 1984-85; Hon MA Univ of Oxford, Hon Dr of Arts Univ of Beds

Books and Publications: incl: The Awkward Warrior - life and times of Frank Cousins (1979), The Miners' Strike (1985), The State of the Nation: Legacy of Aneurin Bevan (1997), From Bevan to Blair: Fifty Years Reporting from the Political Front Line (2003), Bill Morris: A Biography (2010)