Jeffrey Goldberg

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.cite web |url=http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.newyorker.com/main/contributors/contribs_gk%3Fcontribs_gk+Jeffrey-Goldberg&hl=en&strip=1 |title=Contributors |accessdate=2007-04-09 |publisher=The New Yorker]

Background

Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Malverne, New York. [cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Jeffrey |title=Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide |year=2006 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-41234-4 |pages=p. 41] He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of "The Daily Pennsylvanian". [cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Jeffrey |title=Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide |year=2006 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-41234-4 |pages=p. 66] He left college to move to Israel [cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Jeffrey |title=Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide |year=2006 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-375-41234-4 |pages=p. 74] , where he served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a prison guard during the First Intifada. [cite news |last = Watzman |first = Haim |title = The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up. |pages = p. BW06 |publisher = The Washington Post |date = 2006-10-29 |url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601331.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09] 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. [cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/ksb/speaker.php?sid=50 |title=Knopf Speakers Bureau: Jeffrey Goldberg |accessdate=2007-04-07 |format= |work= ]

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". [cite web |url=http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.newyorker.com/main/contributors/contribs_gk%3Fcontribs_gk+Jeffrey-Goldberg&hl=en&strip=1 |title=Contributors |accessdate=2007-04-09 |publisher=The New Yorker. cite web |url=http://www.jeffreygoldberg.net/about/bio/ |title=About Jeffrey Goldberg |accessdate=2007-04-09 |publisher=Personal website]

"The New Yorker"

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

His 2002 article "The Great Terror"cite news |last = Goldberg |first = Jeffrey |title = The Great Terror |publisher = The New Yorker |date = 2002-03-25 |url = http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/020325fa_FACT1 |accessdate = 2007-10-22] won the Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award for international human rights reporting. [cite web |url=http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/2002/awards_2002.php |title=Overseas Press Club Awards: 2002 |accessdate=2007-01-19 |publisher=The Overseas Press Club of America.] The article describes Saddam Hussein's Al-Anfal Campaign, including his regime's use of poison gas at Halabja. The Overseas Press Club stated: "A former CIA director, James Woolsey, called the story 'a blockbuster.'" [cite web| title = "2002 Award Winners"
publisher = Overseas Press Club| url = http://www.opcofamerica.org/opc_awards/2002/awards_2002.php| accessdate =2008-01-29] Goldberg's article has been criticized, however, as "a J-school nightmare: bad sources, compromised sources, [http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0218,trilling,34389,1.html unacknowledged uncertainties] , and the whole text spun through with an alarmist rhetoric that is now either laughable or nauseating, depending on your mood." [Citation| last = Reed| first = Jebediah| title = The Iraq Gamble| newspaper = "Radar"| year = 2007| date = January 10, 2007| url = http://www.radaronline.com/features/2007/01/betting_on_iraq_5.php] 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. [Cockburn, Alexander. [http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02282003.html "CounterPunch Diary: Hacks and Heroes: Meet the New Yorker's Goldberg....] " "CounterPunch. February 28, 2003. Accessed January 22, 2007.] In a late 2002 debate in Slate, Goldberg advocated an invasion on a moral basis:

The administration is planning today to launch what many people would undoubtedly call a short-sighted and inexcusable act of aggression. In five years, however, I believe that the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality. [Jeffrey Goldberg, [http://www.slate.com/id/2071670/entry/2071900/ "Should the U.S. Invade Iraq?] " "Slate. October 3, 2002.]

In 2003 Goldberg's two-part examination of Hezbollah, "In the Party of God," won the National Magazine Award for reporting. [Jeffrey Goldberg, [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021014fa_fact4 "In the Party of God, Part One,"] , "The New Yorker" October 14 and October 21, 2003, accessed January 22, 2007; [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/021028fa_fact2 "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).]

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 renting ponies for Goldberg's children.Cite news | url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501576.html | title = The Atlantic's Owner Ponies Up | author = Howard Kurtz | date = 2007-08-06 | work = The Washington Post | accessdate = 2007-08-18]

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. [cite news |last = Hammer |first = Joshua |title = Stuck in the Middle East With You: Lessons from an improbable friendship. |publisher = The Washington Monthly |date = 2006-12 |url = http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0612.hammer.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09. cite news |last = Watzman |first = Haim |title = The Hope: A Middle East correspondent's troubled friendship with the Palestinian he once kept locked up. |pages = p. BW06 |publisher = The Washington Post |date = 2006-10-29 |url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601331.html |accessdate = 2007-04-09] 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. [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] .

References

Bibliography

;Books by Jeffrey Goldberg
*"Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide". New York: Knopf, 2006. ISBN 0-375-41234-4 (10). ISBN 978-03754-1234-9 (13).

;Reviews of publications by Jeffrey Goldberg
*Cockburn, Alexander. [http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02282003.html "CounterPunch Diary: Hacks and Heroes: Meet the New Yorker's Goldberg....] " "CounterPunch. February 28, 2003. Accessed January 22, 2007.
*Jaffee, Robert David. [http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=16604 "Tools to Fight Terror: Big Dreams, Good Friends."] Book rev. of "Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide." "The Jewish Journal" October 13, 2006. Accessed January 19, 2007.
*Lappin, Elena. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E1DC103FF931A25752C1A9609C8B63&n=Top%2FFeatures%2FBooks%2FBook%20Reviews My Friend, My Enemy] "New York Times Book Review" November 12, 2006. Accessed May 19, 2007.
*Watzman, Haim. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/26/AR2006102601331_pf.html "The Hope:] A Middle East Correspondent's Troubled Friendship with the Palestinian He Once Kept Locked Up." "Washington Post" October 29, 2006. Accessed January 19, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.jeffreygoldberg.net Jeffrey Goldberg's personal website]