Adam Goldman is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist. He received the award for covering the New York Police Department's spying program that monitored daily life in Muslim communities and for his coverage of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Early life and education

Adam Goldman is Jewish. Goldman graduated from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

in 1995 and wrote the book ''Enemies Within'' with

Matt Apuzzo Matt Apuzzo (born October 20, 1978) is an American journalist. Early life Apuzzo was born in Cumberland, Maine and attended Colby College, where he edited the school newspaper, the Colby Echo. Career He wrote for the Waterville ''Morning S ...

. Adam Goldman moved to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

after college and returned to the U.S. in 1998.

Career

Adam Goldman was a reporter with the national security team at ''

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'' from 2013 to 2016. He joined ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' in August 2016 where he covers the

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and counterterrorism. Goldman skipped

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and instead started to work at newspapers in

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and

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where he covered police officers and city hall. He joined the

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(AP)

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bureau in 2002. At AP Goldman covered gambling and tourism in Las Vegas. He moved to New York as an assignment reporter in 2005 and covered many breaking stories such as a Miracle on the Hudson and an attempted 2009 plot to bomb the subway system. Adam Goldman and

have reported on a secret

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prison in

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. Goldman is also the co-author of ''Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America''. Goldman and Apuzzo collaborated in writing this book.

Achievements and honors

Goldman is the recipient of journalism awards that include: * The 2018

Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on national affairs in the United States. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting – National. Li ...

* The 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting * The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting * The

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

for Investigative Reporting * The

Edgar A. Poe Award The Edgar A. Poe Memorial Award is a prize for journalistic excellence that is awarded by the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA). The prize, which paid $2500 in 2011, is funded by the ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' in honor of its distin ...

from the White House Correspondents Association * The 2014 Shadid Award Winner with Matt Apuzzo and Ted Bridis

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goldman, Adam Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners Living people Jewish American journalists Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting winners George Polk Award recipients 1973 births 21st-century American Jews