About Your Correspondent

MERRILL GOOZNER spent more than 25 years in the news business as a foreign correspondent, economics writer and investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He reported from over a dozen countries while posted in Chicago, Tokyo, New York and Washington. His jobs included Chief Asia Correspondent (1991-95), New York Financial Correspondent (1996-1998) and Chief Economics Correspondent (1998-2000). Like Benjamin Franklin, he spent his early years in the business in the printing trade.

His freelance writing in recent years has appeared in numerous national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Scientist, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect and the Washington Monthly. He’s won six Peter Lisagor awards; a Michigan Journalism Fellowship (1995-96); and a Kaiser Media Fellowship (2001-02), and in 2008 was named a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences. In April 2004, the University of California Press published his first book, “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs,” an exposé of the pharmaceutical industry’s research and development practices.

Goozner left daily journalism in June 2000 to teach journalism at New York University. In December 2003, he joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest as director of the Integrity in Science project, where he continues his research and writing. The views expressed on this web site are Goozner's personal views and do not necessarily reflect the views of CSPI.

He and Karen Bachner are the proud parents of Zoe, who is in high school in Silver Spring, Maryland. Daughter Rebecca by his first marriage is married to Chris. They live in Naperville, Illinois and have blessed him with two grandchildren, Rachel and Sarah. Son Thad lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his fiancee, Tina Binkley. Like his father, Thad is obsessed with games, only his isn’t golf.