Liz Goodwin
Washington, D.C.
Congress reporter
Education: Harvard College, BA in history and literature
Liz Goodwin is a Congress reporter for The Washington Post. Goodwin joined The Post from the Boston Globe, where she covered national politics since 2018, most recently serving as Washington bureau chief.
Before joining the Globe in 2018, Goodwin wrote about national politics and national affairs for Yahoo News, covering Congress, the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns, immigration, and criminal justice, among other topics. Earlier in her career, she worked at the Daily Beast.
As a reporter, Goodwin is known for capturing the human side of politics — writing revealing profiles of candidate