Biography

Bennet Goldstein reports on water, agriculture, chemical contamination and environmental justice as Wisconsin Watch’s Report for America representative on the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk — a collaborative reporting network. He spent much of his career at daily newspapers in Iowa, including the Dubuque Telegraph Herald, where he was an enterprise and general assignment reporter. Later, he served on the breaking news team at the Omaha World Herald in Nebraska. Bennet’s work has garnered national and statewide recognitions from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the Milwaukee Press Club, the Iowa Newspaper Association and Associated Press Media Editors. He studied psychology at Washington University in St. Louis and earned a master’s degree in history of science, medicine and technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.