Al Goodman is CNN's award-winning Madrid bureau chief and executive producer for CNN en Español.
He was among the first international correspondents on the scene of the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 and has reported extensively on their aftermath. Goodman was on-site coordinator for CNN's coverage of the terrorist attacks against British targets in Istanbul in 2003 and he was in Casablanca in 2004 to report on that city nearly a year after the terrorist attacks there.
Goodman joined CNN full-time in March 2000, after freelancing for CNN for eight years. He has covered fatal attacks by Basque separatists, the Madrid airliner crash in 2008, the earthquake in northern Morocco in 2004, human rights cases at Spanish court, including charges against Chile’s General Pinochet, three Spanish royal weddings, Spain’s Euro 2008 football triumph, the 2006 World Cup matches involving Portugal and Pamplona’s running of the bulls. He has also helped CNN cover three U.S. presidential visits to Spain. Goodman reports regularly on camera in English and in Spanish for CNN’s various networks.
Goodman’s awards include a National Headliner Award as part of CNN's Investigation Team covering the September 11th attacks and their aftermath, including links to Spain; a Peabody Award for contributing to CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, when Goodman, from Madrid, located people trapped inside the New Orleans Convention Center and got them on the phone live with CNN; an Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Award for aiding CNN’s coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia; and an Emmy Award, as part of CNN’s team that implemented the use of a portable, digital newsgathering system.
He has had exclusive interviews with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, then-Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and with Spanish investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzon.
Goodman is also CNN's on-site representative to its Spanish partner 24-hour news station, CNN+.
Goodman earlier freelanced in Spain for National Public Radio, the International Herald Tribune, Business Week and the Wine Spectator magazine. For four-and-a-half years, just before joining CNN full-time, he freelanced concurrently for the New York Times and CNN, often covering breaking news for both organizations on the same day.
He is a co-author of 'The World on a String: How to Become a Freelance Foreign Correspondent', a primer of advice and anecdotes that has been used at American journalism schools.
Goodman, an American, graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, near Chicago. Fluent in Spanish, he has travelled throughout Latin America and reported from the region.
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