Matthew Goldberg is a consumer banking reporter at Bankrate. Matthew has been in financial services for more than a decade, in banking and insurance. His career includes being a banker in New York City. His reporting career includes working as a staff reporter at two daily newspapers. He earned his first newspaper bylines in 1998.
Matthew has been honored by both the Illinois Associated Press Editors Association and the Illinois Press Association. His writing has been featured on MSN, appeared in Sports Illustrated On Campus, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Buffalo News and other publications. He is currently a member of the Board of Governors at the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), which is the world's largest and oldest organization of business and financial journalists. He is on the organization’s training and finance committees. He has previously served on conference planning committees and has been a Best in Business contest judge for the organization.
Matthew’s radio experience includes being a weekly panelist on the SportsWriter’s show on WGEM AM ESPN 1440 in Quincy, Illinois. He was also an occasional co-host and call-in guest on WGEM SportsCenter. He’s also been a guest on WGN Radio 720 in Chicago, 1080 KRLD Dallas-Fort Worth, 700WLW in Cincinnati, News Radio 610 WTVN in Columbus, Ohio, NewsRadio WINA in Charlottesville, Virginia and other stations.
Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree at Illinois State University and an MBA at William Paterson University.
