Shane Goldmacher, Journalist

Shane Goldmacher is currently a senior political correspondent for National Journal, covering the 2016 presidential campaign. He previously served as a congressional correspondent. He produces investigative stories that focus on the intersection of money and politics, as well as narrative pieces about the politicians and players in Washington and around the nation. In 2014, he won the National Press Club's Sandy Hume Award for Excellence in Journalism.

 

He makes regular media appearances, and has been featured on WAMU, CSPAN, Hearst Television, Al Jazeera America, Fox News and MSNBC, among others.

 

Before moving to Washington in 2011, Shane was in the Sacramento bureau of the Los Angeles Times, where he was the paper's lead budget reporter during California's fiscal crisis. He also covered campaigns, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature.

 

Prior to that, he was a reporter for the Sacramento Bee, where he helped launch the paper's political website, Capitol Alert. Before that, he wrote for Capitol Weekly, a Sacramento-based newspaper that covers state government. He won the 2006 California Journalism Award for print coverage from the Sacramento Press Club.

 

A San Francisco native, Shane is a proud graduate of UC Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in education. He is also a devoted San Francisco Giants baseball fan.

 

He can be reached at sgoldmacher [at] gmail [dot] com.