In 1998, Goudie and his team broke the "Licenses-for-Bribes" investigation which revealed that Illinois commercial drivers' licenses were being sold to hundreds of unqualified truckers.
The TV investigation motivated the FBI to send agents undercover in Illinois Secretary of State facilities and led to dozens of federal corruption indictments.
Goudie's series “Worst Case Scenario” exposed how government agencies and chemical companies were unprotected against an attack.
The national "Edward R. Murrow Award" from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for continuing coverage a nationwide murder spree.
In 1982 he married Teri Goudie, a former ABC producer who now leads a media consulting and corporate crisis training company.