Emma Goldberg is a writer at the New York Times. She has written for sections including Politics, Business, Metro and Styles. She covers a wide variety of topics from young doctors to atheist chaplains and exclamation points. She is interested in generational divisions, health, social issues and the shifting ways we communicate. Her book, Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic, was published by HarperCollins in June 2021. The Washington Post called it “essential reading.” She is the winner of the New York Press Club’s Nellie Bly Award, the Newswomen’s Club of New York Best New Journalist Award and the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Sidney Award. She received her BA at Yale and MPhil at Cambridge University.
Follow her on Twitter and reach her at emma.goldberg@nytimes.com.
Recent Selected Work
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Social Issues and Human Interest
The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist. The New York Times, August 26, 2021
Is This the End of Tipping? The New York Times, February 21, 2021
‘Relapsing Left and Right’: Trying to Overcome Addiction in a Pandemic The New York Times, January 4, 2021
The New Words for Our New Misery The New York Times, December 24, 2020
Teens in Covid Isolation: ‘I Felt Like I Was Suffocating’ The New York Times, November 12, 2020
What ‘The Babylon Bee’ Thinks Is So Funny About Liberals The New York Times, October 11, 2020
Put Down Your No. 2 Pencils. But Not Your Face Mask. The New York Times, September 27, 2020
Bar and Medical Exam Delays Keep Graduates in Limbo The New York Times, September 4, 2020
‘I Can’t Focus on Abortion Access if My People Are Dying’ The New York Times, June 30, 2020
How Reparations For Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue The New York Times, June 18, 2020
A Scholar of Democracy Gets a 2020 Lab for His Ideas The New York Times, February 15, 2020
Would a 37-Year-Old Woman Be Where Pete Buttigieg Is? The New York Times, January 18, 2020
‘Techlash’ Hits College Campuses The New York Times, January 11, 2020
A Farewell to Feministing and the Heyday of Feminist Blogging The New York Times, December 8, 2019
Hong Kong Protests Spread to U.S. Colleges, and a Rift Grows The New York Times, October 26, 2019
Do Works by Men Implicated by #MeToo Belong in the Classroom? The New York Times, October 7, 2019
What Was Lost in ‘the Last Good War’ The New York Times, December 15, 2019
Health and Medicine
Demand Surges for Deworming Drug for Covid, Despite Scant Evidence It Works The New York Times, August 30, 2021
What the Covid Rookies Saw The New York Times, June 4, 2021
They Told Her Women Couldn’t Join the Ambulance Corps. So She Started Her Own. The New York Times, April 19, 2021
‘I Am Worth It’: Why Thousands of Doctors in America Can’t Get a Job The New York Times, February 19, 2021
Vaccine Memories of Another Time and Place The New York Times, December 25, 2020
For Long-Haulers, Covid-19 Takes a Toll on Mind as Well as Body The New York Times, September 7, 2020
Pediatrics Group Offers ‘Long Overdue’ Apology for Racist Past The New York Times, August 20, 2020
For Doctors of Color, Microaggressions Are All Too Familiar The New York Times, August 11, 2020
When Coronavirus Care Gets Lost in Translation The New York Times, April 17, 2020
Hospital Chaplains Try to Keep the Faith During the Coronavirus Pandemic The New York Times, April 11, 2020
A Medical Class ‘Minted by the Pandemic’ The New York Times, March 24, 2020
When the Surgeon is a Mom The New York Times, December 20, 2019
‘I Have a Ph.D in Not Having Money’ The New York Times, November 25, 2019
Investigations
She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway. The New York Times, February 17, 2020
When Poor People Are Beaten for Seeking Help The New York Times, October 26, 2019
Fun
Where Do We Stand on the Exclamation Point? The New York Times, September 27, 2019
Hating Comic Sans is Not a Personality The New York Times, October 9, 2019
