On Heroism

Jeffrey Goldberg joined The Atlantic in 2007 as a national correspondent and was named the magazine's fifteenth editor in chief in 2016. He is also the moderator of Washington Week with The Atlantic on PBS. In 2022, 2023, and 2024, The Atlantic was named the winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the magazine industry. Under Goldberg's leadership, The Atlantic has won the first Pulitzer Prizes in its history. Before joining The Atlantic, Goldberg served first as Middle East correspondent, and then as Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Earlier in his career, he was a writer for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. 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 award for human-rights reporting, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Prize for best investigative reporting.