The Columbia Journalism Review calls the award-winning writer Jeffrey Goldberg this country’s “most influential journalist/blogger on matters related to Israel.” The New York Times refers to Goldberg as the “well-known mensch-about-town in Washington,” widely-recognized for his many appearances on shows ranging from Meet the Press to The Colbert Report to Al Jazeera news broadcasts from the Middle East.
Goldberg, a National Correspondent for The Atlantic, is also considered to be one of our country’s preeminent experts on terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism. His groundbreaking reporting on the Iranian-sponsored terrorist group Hezbollah won the National Magazine Award, the highest honor in magazine journalism. His work has taken him to Syria, the Gaza Strip, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he lived for a month in a radical Muslim seminary. He has interviewed leaders of al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and he participated in the only summit meeting ever to take place between Americans and the leaders of the Taliban. He has met with leaders across the globe. Most recently, he spent a week in Havana with Fidel Castro, who told Goldberg in an explosive interview broadcast around the world, the Cuban Revolution had failed to achieve its goals.
Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg served as Middle East correspondent, and then Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Before that, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine. He began his career as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post. He lived in Israel for several years, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces.
His book, Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror was named a best-book-of-the- year by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate Magazine, The Progressive, Washingtonian Magazine and Playboy. In addition to winning the National Magazine Award, he is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; the Overseas Press Club award for best human rights reporting; the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism and the recipient of 2005’s Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize. He has been named twice in recent years to the “Forward 50,” the list of most influential Jews in America