Economics reporter joins NY Times

Peter Goodman, an economics reporter at the Washington Post, is leaving for a job to cover economics for The New York Times, according to a memo posted on the Romenesko web site.

The memo, from Times business editor Larry Ingrassia, said, “Peter, who is based in New York, has worked for the Post for a decade, previously as a metro reporter, telecommunications beat reporter and Asian economic correspondent based in Shanghai. He will work closely with Lou Uchitelle and David Leonhardt, our two stellar economics reporters.

“In 2005, Peter won the Hugo Shong award for reporting in Asia from Boston University’s Journalism School for a series on China’s expanding appetite for energy. He shared the 2005 American Society of Newspaper Editors’ Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline Reporting as a part of a team that covered the Indian Ocean tsunami, and received a Citation for Excellence for his work from China in 2002 from the Overseas Press Club.

“Peter’s has had an adventurous journalistic career. Upon graduating from Reed College in Oregon in 1989, he went to Japan and got a feature-writing job at the English language Japan Times. He then moved to Manila in 1990 and spent several years freelancing around Southeast Asia, covering a variety of events, from the war in Cambodia, early market reforms in Vietnam and the massacre of pro-independence demonstrators by the Indonesian military in East Timor.”