In Short…
Jamie Goldberg is a business reporter at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon. She spent nearly seven years working as a sports reporter at the paper before moving to the news side in 2020. She served as the paper’s lead soccer reporter covering the Portland Timbers and Thorns from 2013-19 before spending the 2019-20 season covering the Portland Trail Blazers.
Her work has been published in The Oregonian, Sports Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe and the Pomona College Magazine, among others. She graduated from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2013, where she specialized in multimedia journalism.
A little more information…
A former varsity college softball player, Goldberg developed her passion for journalism through sports reporting. She first joined The Oregonian as a sports intern in 2011 before returning to the paper in 2013 to cover issues, trends and enterprise stories on the soccer beat.
She spent six years covering the Portland Timbers and Thorns, becoming the co-host and producer of a popular podcast called Soccer Made in Portland. In 2019, she took over as the paper’s lead Portland Trail Blazers reporter. When sports were halted in March 2020 due to the coronavirus crisis, Goldberg joined her colleagues on the news side in covering the fallout from the pandemic. She decided to make her move to the news side permanent in July 2020.
Before joining The Oregonian, Goldberg spent multiple years covering news and politics at various publications.
She was an editor and reporter at the hyperlocal news site, Mission Local, where she covered San Francisco politics, reported on breaking news and wrote feature stories about the Mission District. In 2012, Goldberg covered national politics as an intern at The Los Angeles Times’ Washington Bureau. She was awarded a 2012 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholarship for her political reporting.
In the summer of 2010, while interning at The Marin Independent Journal, a daily newspaper in Marin County, California, Goldberg pitched and wrote an enterprise story on sports anxiety. The article placed second in the 2010 California Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for Best Sports Story for a professional newspaper with a circulation of 25,000-100,000.
Goldberg has also worked at Wireless and Mobile News, where she wrote for a web-only publication and used social media to promote the website. In addition, she honed her broadcast skills as an intern in the sports department at KRON 4 News in San Francisco and in the news department at KPFA Radio in Berkeley.
Goldberg earned her master’s degree in Journalism from UC Berkeley in 2013. While at UC Berkeley, she produced an award-winning multimedia piece on sports performance anxiety titled “Mental Games,” in which she combined long-form writing, video, photography and audio into a website project that she coded. She graduated from Pomona College in May 2011 with a degree in politics and minors in psychology and English.