# Daniel Golden > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Golden > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Golden.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Golden > Source revision: 1352225997 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) For the former administrator of NASA, see [Daniel Goldin](/source/Daniel_Goldin). **Daniel L. Golden** (born 1957) is an American [journalist](/source/Journalist), working as a senior editor and reporter for [ProPublica](/source/ProPublica) since 2016.[1] He was previously senior editor at [Conde Nast](/source/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Publications)'s now-defunct *Portfolio* magazine,[2] and a managing editor for *[Bloomberg](/source/Bloomberg_L.P.)* News.[3][4] ## Early life and education Born in [Toledo, Ohio](/source/Toledo,_Ohio),[5] Golden grew up in an academic family, as his parents Morris and Hilda Golden were both professors who would later teach at the [University of Massachusetts Amherst](/source/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst).[6] Daniel Golden graduated from [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College) in 1978 with a [B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts)[6] ## Journalism career From 1978 to 1981, Golden was a reporter for the *[Springfield Daily News](/source/Springfield_Daily_News)* in [Springfield, Massachusetts](/source/Springfield,_Massachusetts).[5] In 1981, Golden first joined *[The Boston Globe](/source/The_Boston_Globe)* as a regional reporter, being promoted to general assignment and investigative reporter in 1982. From 1986 to 1993, Golden wrote for the *Globe'*s Sunday "Focus" section and weekly magazine.[5] After a year as an investigative reporter, Golden was a special projects reporter for the *Globe* from 1994 until leaving in 1998.[5] He attended [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) in 1998-99 as a [Knight Journalism Fellow](/source/John_S._Knight_Journalism_Fellowships_at_Stanford).[7][8] Golden joined *[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)* as a reporter in 1999. Beginning in 2000, Golden was the Boston deputy bureau chief for the *Journal*.[5] As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of *The Wall Street Journal* he received the [Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Beat_Reporting) in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students,[9] and the use of [development cases](/source/Development_case) (admissions based on potential donations).[10] He earned the 2011 [Gerald Loeb Award](/source/Gerald_Loeb_Award) for Beat Reporting for his article "Education Inc.".[11] Golden is also a three time recipient of the George Polk Award.[12] A series of articles that Golden edited about Corporate Tax Inversions won Bloomberg's first [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize) in 2015.[13] Golden also co-edited a ProPublica series on Latin American asylum-seekers caught between the U.S. government and the MS-13 gang, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. [14] ## Books - *[The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates](/source/The_Price_of_Admission)*, Three Rivers Press, 2007.[15][16] - *[Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities](/source/Spy_Schools:_How_the_CIA,_FBI,_and_Foreign_Intelligence_Secretly_Exploit_America's_Universities)*, Henry Holt and Co., 2017.[17] - *[The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime](/source/The_Ransomware_Hunting_Team)*, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.[18] – with Renee Dudley ## References 1. Gordy, Cynthia (2016-09-19). ["Daniel Golden to Join ProPublica as Senior Editor"](https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/item/daniel-golden-to-join-propublica-as-senior-editor). *ProPublica*. Retrieved 2016-11-12. 1. ["Daniel Golden | C-SPAN.org"](https://www.c-span.org/person/?danielgolden). *www.c-span.org*. Retrieved 2016-11-12. 1. ["Daniel Golden stories - Bloomberg"](https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/APro4y8ky9M/daniel-golden). *Bloomberg.com*. Retrieved 2016-11-12. 1. Pérez-Peña, Richard. ["More WSJ Veterans Land at Bloomberg News"](http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/more-wsj-veterans-land-at-bloomberg/). *Media Decoder Blog*. Retrieved 2016-11-12. 1. ["Daniel Golden"](https://advance.lexis.com/api/permalink/362f47fd-5e5f-4cc9-87ef-58d151564cd3/?context=1516831). *The Complete Marquis Who's Who Biographies*. 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2020. – via Nexis. 1. ["About Me"](https://www.danlgolden.com/about.php) 1. ["Daniel Golden of The Wall Street Journal"](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/%7B%7Bglobal.pageCanocialUrl%7D%7D). *www.pulitzer.org*. Retrieved 2025-11-28. 1. ["Class of 1999 | John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships"](https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-1999). *jsk.stanford.edu*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250811104209/https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-1999) 2025-08-11 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2025-11-28. 1. [Daniel Golden's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Articles](https://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/PulitzerDG04052004.htm) 1. Golden, Daniel (2006-09-09). ["How Lowering the Bar Helps Colleges Prosper"](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB115774251817757837). *The Wall Street Journal*. [ISSN 0099-9660](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0099-9660). Retrieved 2012-06-10. 1. ["Loeb Award Winners"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190321211554/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners). *[UCLA Anderson School of Management](/source/UCLA_Anderson_School_of_Management)*. June 28, 2011. Archived from [the original](https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2011/loeb-award-winners) on March 21, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2019. 1. ["Daniel Golden of the Wall Street Journal - George Polk Award Winner for Educational Reporting"](https://web.archive.org/web/20091024100910/http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/2004/2.html). Archived from [the original](http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/2004/2.html) on 2009-10-24. Retrieved 2010-03-01. 1. ["Bloomberg Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize"](https://www.bloomberg.com/company/announcements/bloomberg-wins-2015-pulitzer-prize/). *Bloomberg L.P.*. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-11-12. 1. ["ProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage"](https://www.propublica.org/article/pulitzer-winner-ms13-gangs-immigration-zero-tolerance). *ProPublica*. Retrieved 15 October 2023. 1. Yglesias, Matthew (2 June 2017). ["Jared Kushner is the domino Trump can least afford to fall in the Russia investigation"](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/2/15714708/jared-kushner-russia-domino). *[Vox](/source/Vox_(website))*. Retrieved 2 June 2017. 1. Golden, Daniel (2007). [*The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges-and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-bzv8dGOPmsC). Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-1-4000-9797-5. 1. Golden, Daniel (10 October 2017). *Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities*. ISBN 9781627796354. 1. ["The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime by Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden"](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780374603304). *www.publishersweekly.com*. 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-09-27. ## External links - [Biography](http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/daniel-golden) at Pulitzer.org --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Golden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Golden) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Golden?action=history)). 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