About

Bennet Goldstein is an investigative reporter at Wisconsin Watch, where he writes about water, agriculture, chemical contamination and environmental justice.

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.

Bennet’s journalism career began unremarkably when he joined his college newspaper to distract himself from a snuffed romance. The years following were a period of self-discovery and graying hair, where he threw himself into telling other people’s stories, which he considers far more interesting than his own.