Noah Goldberg covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked on its breaking news team, where he helped cover the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath as well as the 2023 Monterey Park mass shooting. He’s also written an array of offbeat enterprise stories, from unraveling the bankruptcy proceedings surrounding the Kanye West hype house to detailing L.A.’s most expensive family feud, and even had a front-row seat to a staged murder-for-hire plot before federal agents were involved. Before joining The Times in 2022, Goldberg worked in New York City as the Brooklyn courts reporter for the New York Daily News and as the criminal justice reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. After spending his early years in New York, Goldberg grew up in Los Angeles, where he remained a die-hard Yankees fan. He graduated from Vassar College.
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