Jeffrey Goldberg may be one of the last journalists who want to carelessly include in a private text thread discussing war plans. But according to Goldberg's stunning revelation on Monday, that's exactly what happened.
Goldberg, 59, was a well-known national security reporter before taking over as editor of the Atlantic Prime Minister in 2016. He was born in Brooklyn, studied at the University of Pennsylvania and moved to Israel to serve the Israeli Defense Forces. He wrote in 1990, in his first Intifada, about his time as a prison guard for his 2006 book, “Prisoners: Muslims and Jews Dividing Middle East.” He also began his journalism career in Israel as a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.
Goldberg returned to the United States and worked as a police reporter for the Washington Post. He wrote for the New York Magazine and the New York Times magazine, and became the director of the New York Bureau of the Jewish newspaper The Forward. In 2000 he was hired by a New Yorker as a Middle East correspondent. This is the role he served for five years before becoming a Washington correspondent.
In 2007 he was seduced by the Atlantic after owner David Bradley sent ponies to Mr. Goldberg's Washington home for three young children. He took over as editor nine years later.
Under Goldberg's editor, the Atlantic won its first Pulitzer Prize in 2021, one in 2022 and another in 2023. The magazine won the National Magazine Awards in 2022 and 2023. Goldberg is also a moderator for PBS's Washington Week and the Atlantic.
The magazine has been managed by Emerson Collective, an organization run by Lauren Powell Jobs, since it acquired a majority stake in 2017. Last year, the Atlantic announced it was profitable and had over 1 million subscriptions. The number of printing magazines to be published has been increased to 12 per year, and has been increased from 10.
Recently, Goldberg has been bolstering political coverage in the Atlantic, hiring several top journalists from the Washington Post. The Atlantic also announced Jonathan Lemia, co-host of MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” and announced that programmer Alex Rayner would contribute to the writer.
Goldberg was often Trump's antagonist. In 2020, he reported that Trump had been a minor paraded to a member of the US military who died while serving as a “loser.” In 2024, he wrote that Trump continued to denigrate the US military, saying he needed “the type of general that Hitler had.”
