Jeffrey Goldberg

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Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September, 1965) is an American journalist. He is an author and a staff writer for The Atlantic Monthly, having previously worked for The New Yorker. Goldberg has written extensively on foreign affairs, with a focus on the Middle East and Africa.[1]

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[edit] Background

Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Malverne, New York.[2] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian.[3] He left college to move to Israel[4], where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a prison guard during the First Intifada.[5] He later returned to the United States to continue his journalism career, and now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.[6]

[edit] Journalism career

Goldberg began his career at The Washington Post, where he was a police reporter. While in Israel, he worked as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post, and upon his return to the United States 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.[7]

[edit] The New Yorker

In October 2000, Goldberg joined The New Yorker.[8] Two of his articles for the magazine have won awards.

His 2002 article "The Great Terror"[9] won the Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award for international human rights reporting.[10] The article describes Saddam Hussein's Al-Anfal Campaign, including his regime's use of poison gas at Halabja.[11] The Overseas Press Club stated: "A former CIA director, James Woolsey, called the story 'a blockbuster.'"[12] Goldberg's article has been criticized, however, as "a J-school nightmare: bad sources, compromised sources, unacknowledged uncertainties, and the whole text spun through with an alarmist rhetoric that is now either laughable or nauseating, depending on your mood."[13] Critics also charge that the article boosted the Bush administration's argument for the invasion of Iraq by emphasizing Saddam Hussein's use of weapons of mass destruction.[14]

In 2003 Goldberg's two-part examination of Hezbollah, "In the Party of God," won the National Magazine Award for reporting.[15]

In 2007, he was hired by David G. Bradley to write for The Atlantic Monthly. Bradley had tried to convince Goldberg to come work for The Atlantic for nearly two years, and was finally successful after purchasing ponies for Goldberg's children.[16]

[edit] Prisoners

Goldberg's book, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide (New York: Knopf, 2006), describes his experiences in Israel working at the Ketziot military prison camp as well as his dialogue with Rafiq, a prisoner whom Goldberg would later befriend in Washington, D.C.[17] Critics in American media received the book positively; The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times all named it one of the best books of 2006.[18]. A scathing critique by Norman Finkelstein appeared on counterpunch.org.[19]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Contributors. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  2. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf, p. 41. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. 
  3. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf, p. 66. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. 
  4. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey (2006). Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf, p. 74. ISBN 0-375-41234-4. 
  5. ^ Watzman, Haim. "The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up.", The Washington Post, 2006-10-29, pp. p. BW06. Retrieved on 2007-04-09. 
  6. ^ Knopf Speakers Bureau: Jeffrey Goldberg. Retrieved on 2007-04-07.
  7. ^ Contributors. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.. About Jeffrey Goldberg. Personal website. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  8. ^ Contributors. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
  9. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey. "The Great Terror", The New Yorker, 2002-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. 
  10. ^ Overseas Press Club Awards: 2002. The Overseas Press Club of America. Retrieved on 2007-01-19..
  11. ^ Goldberg, Jeffrey. "The Great Terror", The New Yorker, 2002-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-10-22. 
  12. ^ "2002 Award Winners". Overseas Press Club. Retrieved on 2008-01-29.
  13. ^ Reed, Jebediah (January 10, 2007), “The Iraq Gamble”, Radar, <http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_5.php> 
  14. ^ Cockburn, Alexander. "CounterPunch Diary: Hacks and Heroes: Meet the New Yorker's Goldberg...." CounterPunch. February 28, 2003. Accessed January 22, 2007.
  15. ^ Jeffrey Goldberg, "In the Party of God, Part One,", The New Yorker October 14 and October 21, 2003, accessed January 22, 2007; "In the Party of God, Part Two," The New Yorker, October 28, 2003, accessed January 22, 2007; searchable database for National Magazine Awards on the website of the American Society of Magazine Editors (2003).
  16. ^ Howard Kurtz. "The Atlantic's Owner Ponies Up", The Washington Post, 2007-08-06. Retrieved on 2007-08-18. 
  17. ^ Hammer, Joshua. "Stuck in the Middle East With You: Lessons from an improbable friendship.", The Washington Monthly, 2006-12. Retrieved on 2007-04-09. . Watzman, Haim. "The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up.", The Washington Post, 2006-10-29, pp. p. BW06. Retrieved on 2007-04-09. 
  18. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/review/20061203notable-books.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2006/holiday-guide/gifts/books_holiday_issue/index.html http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=LATM000020061210e2ca0005z
  19. ^ http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein10062007.html

[edit] Bibliography

Books by Jeffrey Goldberg
Reviews of publications by Jeffrey Goldberg

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