Ellen P. Goodman
Formerly Visiting Senior Fellow
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Ellen P. Goodman was formerly Visiting Senior Fellow at GMF.
Throughout her career, Goodman has also been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been the recipient of Ford Foundation and Geraldine R. Dodge grants for work on advancing new public media models and public interest journalism. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Goodman was a partner at the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. Regarding her education, she is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Norma Shapiro on the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and has three children. She also writes periodically for the Guardian and Slate on information policy.
Media Mentions
Featured Work
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September 28, 2021
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January 15, 2021
The alarm many of us have sounded — that what happens online is not just a game — was sadly validated when radicals spilled out of our screens and...
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November 19, 2020
The Challenge: The Production of Authoritative Information is Drying Up...
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November 12, 2020
In the early hours of the Wednesday after Election Day, as President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed victory in several states and leveled charges...
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August 21, 2020
On Thursday, Casey Newton reported that Facebook is ...
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June 5, 2020
There is a free-speech problem online, but President Donald Trump is not the victim....
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April 13, 2020
Editor's Note: In an interview with Mathew Ingram of Columbia Journalism Review, Karen Kornbluh and Ellen Goodman discuss their newly published paper...
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March 24, 2020
Even before a global pandemic hit, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock had advanced for the first time ever to 100...
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November 13, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has an easy justification for his decision to run political ads on the platform ...
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October 15, 2019
Over the weekend, Facebook likened itself to a broadcaster – inadvertently asking to be regulated....
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September 5, 2019
On both sides of the Atlantic, governments, foundations, and companies are looking at how to solve the problem of online dis/misinformation....
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August 9, 2019
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects online intermediaries like social media platforms from being sued for transmitting problematic...
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July 10, 2019
The U.S. government should establish a new expert regulatory body to tackle the huge and growing threat posed by disinformation on digital platforms....
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June 14, 2019
The first volume of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report notes that “sweeping” and “systemic” social media disinformation was a key element of...
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June 13, 2019
The doctored video falsely depicting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as ill or drunk spreading on social media is a wake-up call that even as the 2020...
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May 20, 2019
Cities around the world are rapidly adopting digital technologies, data analytics, and the trappings of “smart” infrastructure....
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April 5, 2019
It’s no surprise that Mark Zu...
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February 19, 2019
When Boston school leaders sought to use algorithms to redesign the bus schedule, equity remained a challenge....
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February 11, 2019
There is a media policy design problem when it comes to digital information platforms (like Facebook and Twitter) in the United States....
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GMF’s Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative released on March 24 a Policy Roadmap ...
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In a recent column, Kara Swisher observes that sudden congressional action on antitrust and big tech may be too late and orthogonal to what is reall...