Ryan Goldberg is an independent journalist who has written for several dozen publications, including The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Intercept, ProPublica, Vice, Defector, Deadspin, Popular Science, Audubon, and the Village Voice. His first book, Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wilds, will be published by Algonquin in Nov. 2025.
Goldberg writes about the environment, city life, crime, sports and much more. His award-winning Texas Monthly feature, “The Drug Runners,” was the inspiration for The Infinite Race (2020), an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on which he served as a consulting producer. He also worked for HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” where he won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Journalism in 2009, and wrote for four Olympics broadcasts and a World Cup. In 2012, he won a Media Eclipse Award for writing about horse racing.
Goldberg began his reporting career in 1999 at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. He lives in Brooklyn, where he leads regular walks for the Brooklyn Bird Club.
Email: Ryan.Goldberg@gmail.com
Twitter: @goldbergryan
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