Samuel Goldman
Sam is a journalist, writer, and hopeless daydreamer based in Berkeley, California. He has been a general-assignment reporter, freelancer, columnist, and opinions editor, and his work has appeared in HuffPost, CALIFORNIA, Noozhawk, North Gate Radio, The Santa Barbara Independent, and Mission Local. Among many other topics, Sam has covered Indian women’s ice hockey, solutions to the opioid epidemic, the intersection of culture and mass violence, San Francisco police, wildfires, and elections from city council to Congress. In 2018, his ice hockey story won the Bernard Taper Memorial Award in Longform Journalism. Sam’s current reporting interests include science, the environment, news media, and the all-around quirky. He always uses the Oxford comma.
In 2019, he received his master’s from the J-School, where he focused on narrative writing and dabbled in audio journalism. He received his bachelor’s in geography from UC Santa Barbara, where he also studied professional writing.
When not reporting or compulsively reading the news, he’s going for runs around town, improving his Spanish, trying to lure the neighborhood cat into the house, or putting a dent in his ever-growing queue of leisure reading.
EDUCATION
Master's: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Bachelor's: UC Santa Barbara
EMPLOYERS
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Reporter at Noozhawk (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
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Editorial intern at CALIFORNIA (Berkeley, Calif.)
AWARDS & HONORS
2018 Bernard Taper Memorial Award in Longform Journalism
REPORTING INTERESTS
Education, Environment, Food, International, Media, Science, SportsMEDIA PLATFORMS
Narrative Writing