Erica Goode

Erica Goode served as the managing editor of Inside Climate News from 2020-2022 and continues her work now with ICN as an editor of special projects. She founded and led the first environment/climate reporting group at The New York Times in 2010, and later covered climate change as a reporter. In 18 years at The Times, she also served as the paper’s human behavior/mental health writer, covered the war in Iraq, and was a national correspondent covering criminal justice. Before joining the Times, she was an assistant managing editor and senior writer at U.S. News and World Report, and edited the magazine’s Science and Society section. She has taught environmental journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and before joining ICN spent a year as Senior Story Editor at the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times. She’s a former AAAS Science Writing fellow, and a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.