Kevin Goldberg

Washington, DC

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. Goldberg is a regular presenter at conferences and has spoken at events sponsored by the U.S. State Department and nonprofits in more than a dozen countries around the world, as well as having appeared on major media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, Fox television stations and the Forbes Breaking News Channel as a legal expert on First Amendment issues. He also speaks to students at every education level ─ from elementary schools to college to law school and other graduate programs ─ and to community groups around the country, including having taught a class in journalism and First Amendment law for seven years at George Mason University. Prior to joining Freedom Forum, Goldberg served as vice president, legal for the Digital Media Association, which represents the world’s leading audio streaming companies. Before DiMA, Goldberg spent 25 years in private practice at two law firms where he focused on the First Amendment, the Freedom of Information Act, and intellectual property issues for clients, including the News Leaders Association, AAN, World Press Freedom Committee and Global Investigative Journalism Network, providing legislative advocacy, litigation strategy as well as training on free speech, free press and open government issues.

Goldberg received the Radio Television Digital News Foundation’s First Amendment Award in 2026 for “his tireless work defending and promoting free expression, press freedom and open access to information — values at the heart of the First Amendment” and was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Hall of Fame in 2006.