Leah mcgrath goodman biography

American author and journalist

Leah McGrath Goodman is an American author and freelance journalist who has worked in New York City and London. She began her career as a special writer and editor for The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, and Barron's, and was recruited from university by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. She has contributed to publications and agencies such as Fortune,The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast Portfolio, the Associated Press, Forbes and The Guardian.

In 2010 McGrath Goodman was the recipient of a Scripps Howard Foundation fellowship in environmental journalism and a visiting professorship at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her first book The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked the World's Oil Market, about the global oil trading market, was published in 2011. In 2014, a Newsweek cover story where she allegedly uncovered the identity of bitcoin's inventor attracted widespread controversy. In 2016, McGrath Goodman placed as a finalist for the National Magazine Award for her coverage of America's widening wealth gap as part of a package of stories for Newsweek. In 2017, a second Newsweek cover story she wrote about the 9-11 attacks leading Ground Zero to become a deadly cancer cluster was also nominated for a National Magazine Award.

Early life and education

McGrath Goodman was born in Boston, Massachusetts; her parents were an English teacher and an artist. She graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1998 with bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science.

Career

Jersey child abuse investigation

In 2012, UK politician John Hemming tabled an early day motion regarding the withdrawal of McGrath Goodman's UK visa, because she had been prevented from entering

An award-winning investigative journalist, author and speaker, Leah McGrath Goodman is a senior writer and finance editor for Newsweek magazine. She has written in New York and London for CNN/Fortune, Bloomberg, Marie Claire, Forbes, The Financial Times, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, where she was a special writer, editor and foreign correspondent for a decade. Before joining Newsweek in 2013, she was writer-at-large for Institutional Investor and the recipient of a Ted Scripps grant at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Goodman is a member of the London Speaker Bureau and Middle East Speakers Bureau. She is also an author at Harper Collins, which in 2011 published her book, “The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market,” nominated for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.

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Leah McGrath Goodman is a best-selling author, historian and award-winning investigative journalist whose controversial book, “The Asylum: The Renegades Who Hijacked The World’s Oil Market,” exposed the decades-long pattern of complicity and corruption between Wall Street and Washington that permanently destabilised the global energy marketplace.

Nominated for the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Award, her debut book has been called “a riveting tale of greed gone mad,” by Bloomberg BusinessWeek and “twice as crazy and outlandish as any plot that Hollywood could concoct,” by Fortune magazine.

A former senior writer and editor for Dow Jones Newswires, Barron’s and The Wall Street Journal, Leah counts energy traders and the founders of the modern-day oil market as some of her best sources. Featured on CNBC’s Fast Money, Worldwide Exchange and Power Lunch, as well as on Fox Business News’s Bulls and Bears and Stossel Show, Leah is sought after for her fearlessness when it comes to tackling complex topics the mainstream press would rather avoid. She has been interviewed and covered by The Spectator, Reuters, PBS, Forbes, National Public Radio, White House Chronicle, The Global Journal, Corriere della Serra and The Wall Street Journal. She is a popular guest on Russia TV’s Keiser Report and regularly speaks in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.

In 2011, Leah McGrath Goodman completed a fellowship at the Center for Environmental Journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and research journals and consults with members of Congress and their aides on the future of financial regulation and energy policy.

BRATTLEBORO — Everyone’s Books will hold a virtual event featuring a Brattleboro author’s biography of Ariana Huffington.

On Friday at 6 p.m., Leah McGrath Goodman will discuss her book, “Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist,” released this month from Hachette with The Commons’ writer and journalist Olga Peters.

Goodman invites readers to explore, in conversation, the life and times of Arianna Huffington and how she became one of the world’s most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, she built the first internet newspaper, which eclipsed the traffic of The New York Times and won the Pulitzer Prize. Creating a digital media empire from an investment of just over $1 million, she sold HuffPost to AOL in 2011 for more than $300 million.

HuffPost went on to become the flagship publication for global telecommunications giant Verizon, before being acquired by BuzzFeed in 2020. Considered to be one of the most influential media personalities on earth, Huffington went on to establish Thrive Global, a wellness and technology start-up that aims to end the stress and burnout epidemic.

The biography details Huffington’s life and career, chronicling her journey from Athens to London, New York, Washington and California, across seven decades. More information is online at leahmcgrathgoodman.com.

The event can be joined online at call.lifesizecloud.com/8737951 or by phone at: 1-917-259-6726, meeting extension: 8737951#