Bernard Goldberg

Featured Speaker: Bernard Goldberg, HBO reporter, former CBS correspondent, author of New York Times best seller Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.

Denver Workshop
July 2004

Bernard Goldberg, the television news reporter and author of Bias, a New York Times number one best seller about how the media distort the news, is widely seen as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. He has covered stories all over the world for CBS News and has won six Emmy awards for his work as senior correspondent on the CBS News broadcast 48 Hours. His latest book, Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite, published in November 2003 by Warner Books, was also a New York Times bestseller.

Goldberg now reports for the critically acclaimed HBO program Real Sports, which is hosted by Bryant Gumbel. In April 2001 Bernie won his seventh Emmy this one for Outstanding Sports Journalism for a Real Sports story entitled, "Dominican Free For All," an investigative report on major league baseball recruiting in the Dominican Republic.

Bernie has reported extensively, both at HBO and at CBS News, on the transformation of the American culture. At HBO, in the fall of 2000, he wrote the Emmy-award winning 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 whose citizens 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, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, manners, and journalism. In a 1993 TV Guide column, Harry Stein picked Goldberg (and nine others, including, Morley Safer, Bill Cosby and Garry Shandling) as one of the year's most interesting people on television, citing his work "on the drift of American society."

Bernie is married to Nancy Solomon, has two children, Brian and Catherine, and lives in Miami.