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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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More Advice on How To Stay Alive in a Terrorized Hotel

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Dec 2 2008, 10:58 AM ET Comment

Loyal reader SJE sends in these follow-up tips to my earlier list:

1. Consider which side of the building is more vulnerable to rocket or
bomb attack.  In general, it is better to stay on a room at the back
side of the hotel, away from the main street.   Relatedly, consider the
location of the hotel in the city.  If it's next to the US or Israeli
embassy that could be a good thing (greater security measures) or a bad
thing (greater risk of attack).

2. Get a mental picture of the surroundings of the hotel.  Where would
trouble come from (not just terrorists, but muggers etc).  Where would
you escape: you need to get away from the hotel.  Then, where do you go
TO?

3. Regarding jumping out a window: onto what?  Grass and bushes, concrete?.

4.  Be nice to the hotel employees: you might find that they have some
inkling of problems, and have good advice (but don't necessarily take
it).

5.  Could an attacker hide in your room, and where?



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