Abby Goodnough

Abby Goodnough is the domestic policy editor in the Washington bureau. She previously served as bureau chief in Miami and Boston, and most recently as the paper's national health care correspondent. She was part of the team that won a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, and has also won awards for her coverage of the Affordable Care Act and the opioid epidemic.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Goodnough covered education, politics and New Jersey for the Metro desk. She then spent nearly a decade reporting on Florida and New England for the National desk.

She is the author of "Ms. Moffett's First Year: Becoming a Teacher in America," based on a series of articles she wrote in 2000 and 2001 about a legal assistant who switched careers to teach first grade in a Brooklyn public school.

Ms. Goodnough graduated from Cornell University in 1991 with a bachelors degree in Russian. She grew up in Elmira, N.Y., and wanted to be a reporter from the time she was 8.