Yet another four-star admiral has been added to the command structure of the twin-hulled BBC Studios/News canoe paddling furiously into the inland media waters of the USA. Ben Goldberger has been appointed General Manager and Executive Director of Editorial Content, BBC Studios, based in New York.
Deborah Turness, CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, said: “I’m delighted Ben is joining BBC Studios. He is a rare, brilliant talent, combining editorial excellence with commercial experience. He has a track record of digital innovation and will be a huge asset to the business. I look forward to partnering with him to grow our international news offer - particularly in the US market. This is a hugely consequential time in the US with the countdown to November’s election, and the BBC is the most trusted brand that rises above America’s polarised politics to deliver facts, not opinion.”
Ben has a BA in Arts from Kenyon College, Chicago, where he got American football colours. He joined the Chicago Sun Times as a reporter in 2004, covered Chicago for HuffPost for a year, then started a freelance news agency, the Chicago News Co-operative. During those freelance years, he married university sweetheart Melissa Rothberg. In 2012, he joined Time Magazine, rising to become the person who chose Persons of the Year. He seemed to have been eased sideways in a 2021 re-structure, and in 2023 was lured to become deputy editor of ambitious online news launch, The Messenger, which collapsed in less than a year. Recently he's been advising AI software company NOTA. Dad is Pulitzer-prizewinner and architecture critic Paul Goldberger. Ben has type-1 diabetes and campaigns for the New York Stell Cell Foundation.
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