Kevin Goldberg

Kevin Goldberg is a vice president and First Amendment expert at Freedom Forum, where he works to educate the public on the importance of the First Amendment and oversees Freedom Forum’s network of experts.

During his 25 years in private practice at two law firms, Goldberg focused on First Amendment, FOIA and intellectual property issues for clients including the News Leaders Association, Association of Alternative Newsmedia, World Press Freedom Committee and Global Investigative Journalism Network. He also taught a class in journalism and First Amendment law for seven years at George Mason University and has spoken at events sponsored by the State Department and nonprofits in more than a dozen countries around the world.

Beginning with the Electronic Freedom of Information Act in 1996, Goldberg was involved in virtually all major efforts to reform (or prevent reform of) the Freedom of Information Act on Capitol Hill, culminating in the current Open Government Act through 2019. He served on the federal Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee during its 2018-2020 term.

In addition to this legislative work and related work within the executive branch, Goldberg extended his FOI advocacy to the public, writing regularly on these topics for many organizations. He kept the nation’s newspaper editors alerted of changes to FOIA through articles in the ASNE publication, The American Editor. He did the same for the media lawyers as chair of the Legislative Committee of the Media Law Resource Center from 2004-2008, writing a monthly article on key legislation and providing a list of bills pending in Congress which would affect FOIA and the First Amendment.

Goldberg also wrote the federal legislative update for the National FOI Day Conference for several years.

(Updated April 2025)