Nicholas Goldberg spent 20 years as an editor and writer at the Los Angeles Times. He was the editor of the op-ed page and the Sunday Opinion section from 2003 until 2009. He served 11 years as editor of the editorial pages. For three years, until 2023, he wrote a column that appeared twice a week for the opinion pages.
Before coming to the L.A. Times, Goldberg was a reporter for New York Newsday. He covered Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. In the late 1990s, he was the newspaper’s Middle East bureau chief based in Jerusalem. In that job, he covered the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, presidential elections in Iran, arms monitoring in Iraq, famine in Sudan, civil war in Algeria, the war in Lebanon and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Saudi Arabia, among other things.
Between 1999 and 2002, Goldberg served as a director of Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates and then as a senior Vice President of Benenson Strategy Group, conducting polls, focus groups and other strategic research for political candidates, not-for-profit organizations and corporations.
His writing has been published in the New Republic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the Sunday Times of London and the Washington Monthly, among other places. He is a graduate of Harvard University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.