In 2022, frustrated with their editorial policy, he quit the BBC alongside colleagues Emily Maitlis (Newsnight) and Jon Sopel (Politics Show) to launch The News Agents podcast.
[2] He was raised on a council estate in Longbridge; he attended Turves Green Boys' School and completed his A Levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College.
[4] While at Oxford, he spent time in the United States as an intern to the Democrat House Representative Diana DeGette.
[5] He later became an Entente Cordiale scholar, spending time learning French in Paris[6] and Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Normal University.
[9][10] After graduation, Goodall worked for Granada Studios as a question writer for the quiz show University Challenge.
He became known for his coverage of the Brexit crisis and the strife within the Labour Party, and in 2019 was named a MHP Communications '30 under 30' young journalists to watch.
[18][19] He went on to become one of the most prominent faces of the BBC's reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, especially its impact on schools, care homes and the death rate.
[11] In 2022, he reported from the western Ukrainian border on the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War and the resultant refugee crisis in eastern Poland.
[26] He married Tone Langengen, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's senior climate and energy policy advisor, in August 2023.