Susan Goldberg
Former Detroit Free Press reporter and editor Susan Goldberg, an alum of Michigan State University, has been named executive editor of National Geographic, the publication announced in a press release on Thursday.
National Geographic said Goldberg will be in charge of the magazine’s writing staff, which includes 18 full-time editors and writers, and a cast of contributing writers including Garrison Keillor, David Quammen, Cynthia Gorney, Alexandra Fuller, Jonathan Franzen and James Verini. She will report to editor-in-chief Chris Johns.
Goldberg, who had worked for a number of publications after the Free Press, had been working at Bloomberg News as an executive editor for federal, state and local government coverage. The news of her departure from Bloomberg was first reported by Huffington Post.
Over the years, Goldberg worked as the deputy managing editor of the News, Life and Enterprise sections at USA Today, executive editor at the San Jose Mercury News and the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. She joined Bloomberg in 2010.
In the 1980s, she worked in the Detroit Free Press Lansing bureau with some of the paper's top staffers including Tim Jones and columnist Hugh McDiarmid. She later became an editor.
