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Jeffrey Goldberg
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Goldberg in 2013
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Jeffrey Mark Goldberg
September 22, 1965 New York City, U.S.
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| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) |
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| Title | Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic |
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Pamela Ress Reeves
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| Children | 3 |
| Awards | National Magazine Award, Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award |
Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 22, 1965) is an American journalist and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. During his nine years at The Atlantic prior to becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affairs. Goldberg became moderator of the PBS program Washington Week (rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic) in August 2023, while continuing as The Atlantic's editor.
Early life and education
Goldberg is Jewish and was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ellen and Daniel Goldberg. Goldberg has described his parents as "very left-wing." His grandfather was from the shtetl of Leova, Moldova. He grew up in suburban Malverne on Long Island, a predominately Catholic neighborhood which he once described as “a wasteland of Irish pogromists." Retroactively, when describing his first trip to Israel as a teen, Goldberg recalled the sense of empowerment he felt Israel embodied.
Goldberg attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian. While at Penn he worked at the Hillel kitchen serving lunch to students. He left college to move to Israel, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces during the First Intifada as a prison guard at Ktzi'ot Prison, a prison camp set up to hold arrested Palestinian participants in the uprising. There he met Rafiq Hijazi, a Palestine Liberation Organization leader, college math teacher, and devout Muslim from a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, whom Goldberg described as "the only Palestinian I could find in Ketziot who understood the moral justification for Zionism".
Goldberg lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Pamela (née Ress) Reeves. They have three children.
Career
Goldberg returned to the United States and began his career as a reporter at The Washington Post, where he worked the police beat. While in Israel, he worked as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. Upon his return to the US, he served as the New York bureau chief of The Forward, a contributing editor at New York magazine, and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine.
In 2000, Goldberg joined The New Yorker.
In 2007, he was hired by David G. Bradley to write for The Atlantic. Bradley had tried for nearly two years to convince Goldberg to work for The Atlantic, and was finally successful after renting ponies for Goldberg's children.
In 2011, Goldberg joined Bloomberg View as a columnist. Goldberg left Bloomberg in 2014.
Goldberg joined The Atlantic and became editor-in-chief of The Atlantic in 2016. Goldberg wrote principally on foreign affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa.
In 2019, Goldberg delivered the commencement address to the graduating class of the Johns Hopkins University.
In August 2023, Goldberg became the moderator of the PBS program Washington Week, which added "with The Atlantic" to its title as an editorial partnership between the magazine and the television program was initiated.
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Goldberg interviewing President Obama in the Oval Office, 2014
