Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Born in 1965 in Brooklyn, New York, he grew up in Malverne on Long Island. Goldberg served in the Israel Defense Forces during the First Intifada as a prison guard at Ktzi’ot Prison, where he encountered Palestinian detainees, including Rafiq Hijazi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
He began his journalism career at The Washington Post, later working as a columnist for The Jerusalem Post and serving as the New York bureau chief for The Forward. Goldberg joined The New Yorker in 2000 and later became a writer for The Atlantic in 2007. In 2016, he was appointed editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, where he continues to focus on foreign affairs, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.
In August 2023, Goldberg became the moderator of PBS’s Washington Week, rebranded as Washington Week with The Atlantic, reflecting the partnership between the program and the magazine.
Most recently, Goldberg revealed that U.S. national-security leaders accidentally included him in a group chat discussing upcoming military strikes in Yemen, which he initially doubted but later confirmed as real when the strikes commenced.