Who Is Jeffrey Goldberg? – The New York Times
Jeffrey Goldberg could be one of the latest journalists that the Trump administration would like to inadvertently include on a private text thread that discusses war plans. But according to the amazing of Mr. Goldberg revelation Monday is exactly what happened.
Goldberg, 59 years old, was a well -known national security reporter before taking on the role of editor -in -chief of the Atlantic in 2016. He was born in Brooklyn and studied at the University of Pennsylvania before abandoning and moving to Israel to serve in the Israeli defense forces. He wrote of his time as a prison guard in 1990, during the first intifada, for a 2006 book, “Prisoners: a Muslim and a Jew throughout the Middle East are divided.” He also started a career in journalism while he was in Israel as an editorialist for the post of Jerusalem.
Mr. Goldberg returned to the United States and worked as a police journalist at the Washington Post. He wrote for the New York magazine and the New York Times magazine, and became the head of the New York Bureau of the Jewish newspaper The Forward. In 2000, he was hired by the New Yorker as a correspondent in the Middle East, a role he played for five years before becoming Washington correspondent.
In 2007, it was attracted At the Atlantic after its owner, David Bradley, sent Ponies to the house of Washington of Mr. Goldberg for his three young children. He hired himself as a chief publisher nine years later.
Under the direction of Goldberg, the Atlantic won its first Pulitzer prize, in 2021, and also won one in 2022 and another in 2023. The magazine won the National Magazine Award for general excellence in 2022 and 2023. Mr. Goldberg is also the moderator of the “Washington week with the Atlantic” of PBS.
The magazine was controlled by Emerson Collective, an organization managed by Laurene Powell Jobs, since he acquired a majority share in 2017. Last year, the Atlantic announced that he was profitable and had more than 1 million subscriptions. It increased The number of printing magazines that publishes at 12 per year compared to 10.
Recently, Mr. Goldberg was strengthen Political coverage to the Atlantic, taking several journalists from the Washington Post. The Atlantic also announced the “Morbc” Morning Joe “Jonathan Lemire co-conductor and the programmer Alex Reisner would have contributed with the writers.
Mr. Goldberg has often been an antagonist of Mr. Trump. In 2020, he shown That Mr. Trump had denigrated the American military members who had died during the service as “losers”. In 2024, he he wrote That Mr. Trump continued to have a contempt for the US military and had said he needed “the type of general that Hitler had”.
