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Regional Judges: Adam Goodman

Adam Goodman
Assistant Managing Editor/Metro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Adam Goodman leads the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s regional news coverage and oversees a metro staff of more than 80 reporters and editors who produce local and regional news stories for the front page, the daily metro section and the zoned news sections tailored for readers in St. Charles County, Illinois and Jefferson County.

Goodman attended Stanford University graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He worked at The Stanford Daily, including a stint as editor. He graduated in 1984.

Goodman then went to work as a reporter for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, CA. He moved back to the Midwest in 1987 as business reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he has been ever since, working a variety of reporting and editing jobs over the years.

As a reporter, Goodman has investigated major defense contractors such as McDonnell Douglas Corp. and General Dynamics Corp., covered several of St. Louis’ biggest business bankruptcies and profiled some of the city’s wealthiest and most publicity-shy private businessmen. As an editor, Goodman has overseen numerous investigations, including those of fraud and mismanagement at the St. Louis Housing Authority and cover-ups of sexual abuse by priests in local dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church.

He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Chesterfield, MO with their son and daughter.

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