Danny Gold

Background

About Danny Gold

Producer, correspondent, director and writer with a proven track record of getting things done from conception to execution. Work has aired on Netflix, HBO, Vice News, PBS Newshour, Al Jazeera, the Guardian and the New Yorker, among others. Most recent writing has appears in Wired Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Creator, host and producer of the Underworld Podcast, a weekly podcast that details global organized crime and regularly is among the top podcasts on Apple podcasts documentary charts. Specializes in breaking news, conflict and criminal justice. Reporter with over 10 years of experience conducting domestic and international investigations, with proven intuition in high risk environments, as well as ability to conduct interviews with sensitive sources, work in conflict zones, access and analyze records and databases, assess risk, manage multiple concurrent projects, synthesize information into compelling reports, and meet tight deadlines. Recent work includes producing and directing an award-winning short documentary that was selected for the Woodstock film festival, segments for PBS Newshour on the violence and migration in Latin America, Pulitzer Center - funded work on El Salvador for the New Yorker and the Guardian, an hour long doc about murder rates and industrial decline in the Midwest, a 4-part series on a divided America for AJ+'s stories unit and production development for the Netflix docu-series Remastered. Previously was a producer and correspondent for Vice News. Extensively covered the Middle East, most notably the Syrian conflict and the war against the Islamic State from Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Additionally, has reported in Ukraine, Burma, Central African Republic, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, Gaza, Burundi, Rwanda, Costa Rica and others. Has produced and served as a correspondent for both full length documentaries and breaking news dispatches and was part of the team that launched Vice News. Previously was a Ford International Fellow at the International Center for Journalists with a focus on Buddhist and Muslim tensions in Burma, and won a Webby for The Fight Against Ebola, a half hour doc on Liberians trying to stop the spread of Ebola.