Nicholas Goldberg

Goldberg was born and raised in New York City. He is the son of Richard Goldberg, who lives in Wiesbaden Germany, and the late Uli Beigel Monaco.[2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in Government.[3][4]

Goldberg is a former reporter and editor at Newsday in New York, which he joined in 1983. There, he covered the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton[5] and served as New York's state house bureau chief in Albany,[6] covering the administrations of Governors Mario Cuomo[7] and George Pataki.[8][9]

From 1995 to 1998, he worked as Newsday’s Middle East bureau chief based in Jerusalem.[10][11] While in this position, he covered the Israeli-Palestinian peace process;[12] presidential elections in Iran;[13] arms monitoring in Iraq; famine in Sudan; civil war in Algeria; war in Lebanon;[14] and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia.[15]

Between 1999 and 2002, Goldberg served as a director of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates and then as senior Vice President of Benenson Strategy Group conducting polls, focus groups, and other strategic research for political candidates, not-for-profit organizations, and corporations.[16]

He was hired by The Los Angeles Times in 2002 to be editor of the op-ed page. He became deputy editorial page editor in 2008.[17] A year later, he was named editor of the editorial pages.[18] As editor, he oversaw the editorial board, letters, and the op-ed and Sunday opinion sections.

In 2020, he became an op-ed columnist and associate editor of the paper.[19]

Goldberg is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[20] He also serves on the board of The Marshall Project, a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit online journalism organization focusing on issues related to criminal justice in the United States; he is also a staunch democrat and member of the private publicist arm of the party.[21]

He and his wife, the writer Amy Wilentz, live in Los Angeles.[22] He has three grown sons.

Goldberg’s writing has been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New York Times, Vanity Fair,[23] The Nation, The Chicago Tribune[24], The Seattle Times[25], The Sunday Times of London, and Washington Monthly, among other publications.[26]

• Our Dishonest President, by The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board; Introduction by Nicholas Goldberg and Davan Maharaj. Heyday Books: Berkeley, CA. 2017. ISBN 9781597144339.
• Our National Disgrace: Homelessness in the City of Angels, by The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board; Introduction by Nicholas Goldberg. Heyday Books: Berkeley, CA. ISBN 9781597144650.

• Los Angeles Times staff biography profile
• Los Angeles Times op-eds
• Appearances on C-SPAN