Goodrich was a staff photographer for Newsday for 29 years. Before joining the staff of Newsday he worked for The New York Times and Associated Press as a freelance photographer. He was a member of the Newsday reporting team that received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Reporting for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800. He was a member of the Newsday staff nominated as finalists for Breaking News Reporting in 2004 for coverage of the summer blackout that struck New York and most of the Northeast. In 1991 he was a member of the photo staff who were nominated finalists for photographs taken after the crash of Avianca Flight 52. The editors of Newsday have twice nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography.