Merrill Goozner

Merrill Goozner, an independent author and writer based out of Washington DC, formerly directed the Integrity in Science project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. He is currently the senior correspondent for the Fiscal Times. He is a former chief Asia, chief financial, investigative business reporter, and chief economics correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, where he worked for 25 years. He wrote stories for over 12 countries while living in Chicago, Illinois, Tokyo, New York, and Washington. He was a professor of journalism at New York University from 2000-03. Goozner writes on a variety of health care and economic topics, including Stem Cell research, pharmaceutical industry and health economics.

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.

Appearances

Goozner's work has appeared in a number of publications which include, the New York Times, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect and the Washington Monthly.

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.

External links

• GoozNews
• Integrity in Science