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Jeffrey Goldberg

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The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic who was inadvertently added to a sensitive Trump Administration Signal group chat, breaking the story of 'Signalgate'.


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Summary

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg, born in 1965, is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Prior to assuming his current role, Goldberg gained recognition for his reporting on foreign affairs during his nine years at The Atlantic. He also began moderating the PBS program Washington Week (rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic) in August 2023, while continuing his duties as editor of The Atlantic. Goldberg was inadvertently added to a secret group chat discussing military action against Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, an incident referred to as "Signalgate," which raised concerns about operational security and compliance with the Federal Records Act.

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Extracted Attributes
  • Born

    1965-09-22

  • Award

    Berlin Prize

  • Spouse

    Pamela Ress Reeves

  • Children

    3

  • Author of

    Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror

  • Education

    University of Pennsylvania

  • Occupation

    Moderator

  • Citizenship

    United States

  • Place of Birth

    Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

  • Former Citizenship

    Israel (until 2013)

Timeline
  • Born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. (Source: Wikidata, Wikipedia)

    1965-09-22

  • Served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a prison guard, witnessing beatings of Palestinian detainees during the first intifada. (Source: The Guardian)

    1980s-1990s

  • Married Pamela Ress Reeves. (Source: Wikipedia)

    1993

  • Joined The Atlantic as a national correspondent. (Source: The Atlantic website, Karsh Institute of Democracy)

    2007

  • Renounced Israeli citizenship. (Source: Wikipedia)

    2013

  • Named the 15th editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. (Source: The Atlantic website, Karsh Institute of Democracy)

    2016

  • The Atlantic, under his leadership, won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. (Source: The Atlantic website, Karsh Institute of Democracy)

    2022

  • The Atlantic, under his leadership, won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. (Source: The Atlantic website, Karsh Institute of Democracy)

    2023

  • Began moderating the PBS program Washington Week (rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic). (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

    2023-08

  • The Atlantic, under his leadership, won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. (Source: The Atlantic website)

    2024

  • Was inadvertently added to a secret government group chat discussing military action against Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, leading to the 'Signalgate' controversy. (Source: Related Documents, Web search results)

    Early 2025

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born 1965) is an American journalist who is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. During his nine years at The Atlantic before becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affairs. He moderated the PBS program Washington Week (rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic) beginning in August 2023, while continuing as The Atlantic's editor.

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  • Jeffrey Goldberg - Wikipedia

    Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born 1965) is an American journalist who is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. During his nine years at The Atlantic before becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affairs. He moderated the PBS program Washington Week (rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic) beginning in August 2023, while continuing as The Atlantic's editor. ## Early life and education [...] | Jeffrey Goldberg | | | --- | --- | | Goldberg in 2013 | | | Born | Jeffrey Mark Goldberg 1965 (age 59–60) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | | Citizenship | United States Israel (until 2013) | | Education | University of Pennsylvania | | Occupations | Journalist writer | | Title | Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic | | Spouse | Pamela Ress Reeves ​ (m. 1993)​ | | Children | 3 | | Awards | National Magazine Award, Overseas Press Club's Joe & Laurie Dine Award | [...] Jeffrey Mark Goldberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Ellen and Daniel Goldberg. His grandfather was from the shtetl of Leova, Moldova. He grew up in suburban Malverne on Long Island, a predominately Catholic neighborhood he once called "a wasteland of Irish pogromists." Goldberg attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Pennsylvanian. At Penn he worked at the Hillel kitchen serving lunch to students.

  • Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic

    Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlanticand the moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named the magazine’s 15th editor in chief. During his editorship, The Atlantic has set new audience and subscription records, and won its first-ever Pulitzer Prizes. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, The Atlantic received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence from the American Society of Magazine Editors, [...] International Center for Scholars, and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for reporting, the Daniel Pearl Award for reporting, the Overseas Press Club Award for human-rights reporting, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting. [...] Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent, and then the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he wrote 15 cover stories. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson

  • Jeffrey Goldberg - Karsh Institute of Democracy

    Jeffrey Goldbergis the editor in chief of The Atlantic and the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS. He joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and in 2016 was named the 15th editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, which was founded in 1857. In 2022 and 2023, The Atlantic won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence; this is the highest honor bestowed by the magazine industry. Under his leadership,The Atlantic has won the first Pulitzer Prizes in its [...] Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served as the Middle East correspondent and then the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine and New Yorkmagazine. He began his career as a police reporter for The Washington Post. Goldberg is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror. A former fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, he also served as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International [...] Center for Scholars and as the distinguished visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the Daniel Pearl Award for Reporting, the Overseas Press Club’s award for human-rights reporting, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting.

  • Who is Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who broke the Signal leak ...

    Born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents, Goldberg, 59, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, but left before graduating to move to Israel. He joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving as a guard at a prison that held Palestinians detainees during the first intifada of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In his memoir he described witnessing the beatings of detainees. [...] At the same time Goldberg is also widely criticized by some on the left of US media and politics for his views on Israel, his past record serving in the Israeli military and his hawkish views on Iran and his support for the US invasion of Iraq. [...] Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was already considered a bete noire by circles around Donald Trump even before Monday’s embarrassing revelation that he had been accidentally added to a chat that included the US defense secretary, the White House national security adviser and the heads of the country’s intelligence community.

  • Read The Atlantic's Interview With Donald Trump

    “Later today I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor of The Atlantic, and the person responsible for many fictional stories about me.” Not entirely fictional in the president’s eyes, apparently, was the Signalgate controversy, which he said I was “somewhat more ‘successful’ with.” [...] #### Welcome to the Oval Office Donald Trump: This will be very, very interesting. You think Biden would do this? I don’t think so. How are you, folks? Ashley Parker: Good, how are you? Thanks for having us in. Trump: I’m good. Thank you very much. Jeffrey Goldberg: Nice to see you. And thanks for announcing the interview on Truth Social. Parker: Thank you for your discretion! [...] Goldberg: The Ukrainians don’t believe that, though. Trump: Well, they don’t because they have pretty good publicity. Look, the war in Ukraine would’ve never happened if I were president. It would’ve never happened, and it didn’t happen for four years. #### On Signalgate Goldberg: I want to ask you about something that you just wrote in your Truth Social post. By the way, I love the line “I will be meeting with, of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg.” Trump: Oh, you like that? I had to do that.

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 22, 1965) is an American journalist and editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. During his nine years at The Atlantic prior to becoming editor, Goldberg became known for his coverage of foreign affairs.

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