Bernard Goldberg, television news reporter and best-selling author, is widely seen as one of the most original writers and thinkers of broadcast journalism.  He has covered stories all over the world for CBS News and has won six Emmy Awards for his work a senior correspondent on the CBS News broadcast “48 Hours”.

 

Goldberg now reports for the critically acclaimed HBO program “Real Sports”, hosted by Bryant Gumbel.  Bernie recently won his seventh Emmy—this one for Outstanding Sports Journalism.

 

Bernie has reported extensively, both at HBO and CBS News, on the transformation of the American culture.  At HBO, in the fall of 2000, he wrote the widely-hailed documentary “Do You Believe in Miracles”, the dramatic story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team and the most famous hockey game ever—the one between the United States and the Soviet Union that revitalized the American spirit and helped bring America out of the malaise it had suffered for much of the 1970s, when gas lines were long, interest rates high, and Iranian radicals held Americans hostage in Teheran.

 

At CBS, he anchored two prime-time documentaries about how the American landscape was changing.  “Don’t Blame Me” showed how the United States was becoming a nation of finger-pointers who more and more were refusing to accept responsibility for their actions.  “In Your Face, America” was an hour-long report about the coarsening of America, about how vulgar and uncivil our popular culture was becoming.

 

Bernie has also written op-ed pieces, which were published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, about baseball, manners and journalism.  In a 1993 TV Guide column, Harry Stein picked Goldberg (and nine others including, Morley Safer, Lisa Myers, Bill Cosby, and Gary Shandling) as one of the year’s most interesting people on television, citing his work “on the drift of American society.”

 

Goldberg is the proud author of three New York Times best-sellers:  Bias (2002); Arrogance (2003); 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America—And Al Franken is #37 (2005), and his most current book, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right:  How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve, came out April 2007.

 

Bernie is married to Nancy Solomon and has two children, Brian and Catherine.  They reside in Miami.  He still works for HBO, occasionally writes a book, and is a frequent columnist providing Op-Ed’s for papers such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.