Bernard Richard Goldberg (born May 31, 1945), also known as Bernie Goldberg, is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning American

United States

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 writer

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, journalist

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, and political

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 commentator. Goldberg is currently a commentator for Fox News and a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

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.
Goldberg was born in New York City

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, New York

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 in 1945 and graduated from Rutgers University

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 in 1967.
From 1972 to 1974 he worked for CBS News

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 as a producer in Atlanta; he became a reporter in 1974 and correspondent in 1976.