Rob Golub has served the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle as its editor since 2015.
Golub is an attorney and previously served as chief editor of The Journal Times in Racine, Wisconsin. Golub has spent much of his career working to responsibly engage audiences through community journalism.
The graduate of Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School resigned as editor of The Journal Times in Racine more than ten years ago, to accept the Chronicle position. At the Racine newspaper, Golub managed a department of 25 employees. Golub held several different positions at The Journal Times over his 16 years there, including online editor, local editor and reporter.
At the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Golub has won multiple awards from the Milwaukee Press Club for his work. Golub won a first-place award from the Milwaukee Press Club in 2022, for Best Long Hard Feature Story.
For about 20 years, he has run an internship program that trains the leading journalists of tomorrow. His “graduates” have gone on to work or intern at The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, MSNBC and other news organizations worldwide. They have also gone on to work or intern as highly effective and responsible community journalists.
Outside of his Chronicle and Federation work, Golub is the editor and founder of SuccessfulJournalism.com, a resource for journalists who want to better connect with their communities. In this role, Golub speaks at national journalism conferences and operates a journalism lab.
Golub is originally from Long Island in New York, where he attended Hofstra University as an undergraduate, was on the executive board of Hillel and served as president of the traditionally Jewish Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He is a former president of the board for NAMI-Wisconsin, the mental health advocacy organization.