Veteran ABC News Director Roger Goodman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Dec. 8, 2009 — -- Veteran ABC News director Roger Goodman will receive the Directors Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement Award in News Direction.

"We are privileged to recognize Roger Goodman with the Lifetime Achievement Award for news direction, a man whose singular influence on modern news broadcasts has shaped the coverage of every significant event over the past 40 years," said Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford in a statement today.

Goodman will accept the award in January 2010 at the DGA's 62nd Annual Awards dinner in Los Angeles.

Earlier this year, Goodman transitioned from his role at ABC News to pursue additional opportunities outside the company.

On May 1, he began focusing his efforts on his own production company while continuing to serve as an ABC News consultant.

Goodman said of his time at ABC News, "This has been the most unbelievable ride imaginable. If someone told me 45 years ago that I would be given the opportunity to direct the millennium, the Olympics and the Oscars I wouldn't believe it were possible. And yet here I am, all these years later, with those experiences and many more to be thankful for."

Goodman's career spans four decades in news, sports and entertainment -- creating, producing and directing live events on and off the air.

Since 1998, Goodman has served as vice president of special projects for the ABC television network, where he created, produced, and directed special programming.

For ABC News, Goodman developed and executed the creative design and direction of ABC's political coverage of presidential conventions, debates, elections and inaugurations, a responsibility he has had since 1981.