Ryan Goldberg is an independent journalist who has written for the New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Intercept, ProPublica, Vice, Defector, Deadspin, Popular Science, the Village Voice, and more than a dozen other publications in a long and eventful career. His work has been highlighted by Longform, Longreads, and The Sunday Long Read. He is currently writing a book about birds and New York City for Algonquin.
His award-winning Texas Monthly feature “The Drug Runners” was the inspiration for The Infinite Race (2020), an ESPN 30 for 30 directed by Bernardo Ruiz. He served as a consulting producer on the documentary. He’s also worked for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, where he won a Sports Emmy for Outstanding Sports Journalism in 2009. Other TV and film credits include the 2018 World Cup and four Olympics broadcasts; original research for America’s Game and the Iran Hostage Crisis (2015); and associate producer on another 30 for 30, Benji (2012).
He began his reporting career in 1999 at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey. He lives in Brooklyn and is a member of the National Writers Union and Freelance Solidarity Project, as well as the Brooklyn Bird Club.
Email: Ryan.Goldberg@gmail.com
Twitter: @goldbergryan