Emma Goss
I grew up in Silicon Valley, attended Jewish day schools in Palo Alto, and caught the journalism bug early. I treasured my antique typewriter, a Hanukkah gift I received at age seven, and determined then that journalism would be my lifelong passion.
I moved to New York City when I was 18. I began writing for the Columbia Daily Spectator and interning at Glamour Magazine, Slate.com, MSNBC, and NBC News, all during my years as a student at Barnard College. I graduated in 2015 with a degree in American Studies, and an award-winning thesis on the genealogy of voices inside our digital devices, offering a contemporary theory on why our devices are so predominantly female-voiced, and the impact those voices carry in our daily lives.
From 2014-2018 I worked my way up the ladder at NBC News in 30 Rockefeller Center. I jumped from Morning Joe intern, to NBC Nightly News desk assistant, to network-wide associate producer for NBC News's nascent business and technology team.
As an associate producer, I became one of the news network’s go-to sources for news, contacts, and pitches on economic policy, retail trends, Wall Street volatility, and all things tech. I am most grateful for the freedom I was given to take the lead and develop stories from start to finish alongside a correspondent. These stories aired on NBC Nightly News, the TODAY Show, and MSNBC.
I moved to Bakersfield, CA in April 2018 for a chance at on-air reporting. I was a general assignment reporter every weekday at 5pm and 6pm for KBAK Eyewitness News.
In December 2020 I began reporting for KTVU, a true homecoming! I'm excited to deliver important information to Bay Area homes at a time when accurate and reliable journalism is more vital than ever, and eager to continue to report on business and tech from the place where so much of the industry started (and where I started), Silicon Valley.
The latest from Emma Goss
Despite weather delays, Moscone Center plans to reopen for vaccines
The Moscone Center plans to resume vaccine appointments on Thursday at 11 a.m, then continue its normal daily hours starting Friday, with appointments beginning at 8 a.m. The center originally planned to resume appointments Monday, after shutting down a week prior, but pushed the reopening a few days due to winter weather delaying vaccine shipments.
Entire Oakley school board resigns after hot mic comments
All members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District Board resigned after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents at a virtual board meeting that was being broadcast to the public.
Pelosi, Asian Pacific Caucus, address surge in Asian-American hate crimes
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined the Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus on Friday to address the recent surge in Asian American hate crimes across the country, which have hit communities in the San Francisco Bay Area especially hard.
San Francisco parents hold another day of Zoom-in protests
Most private and parochial schools in San Francisco have re-opened for in-person learning, but the San Francisco Unified School District says they're not quite there yet, but are hopeful schools will offer hybrid in-person learning soon.
Limited vaccine supply forces one week closure of Moscone Center mass vaccination site
The mass vaccination site recently rolled out at San Francisco's Moscone Center will close for one week due to a shortage in vaccine supply.
Bay Area courts face enormous backlog of cases, while defendants await justice
Now that jury trials are moving forward, the courts are up against an enormous backlog of cases, straining the resources of the courts and delaying justice for many.
Masks required for fans who shout: Restaurants step up safety for Super Bowl watching
On Sunday, not all eyes were glued to the Super Bowl. Restaurants in the Bay Area had their attention on diners, making sure watching the Super Bowl didn't result in any super spreader scenarios.
Amid vaccine shortages, will Bay Area mass vaccination sites have adequate supply?
Levi's Stadium hopes to be the largest vaccination site in the state when it begins mass inoculations on Tuesday, but some Bay Area counties are still seeing a shortage of vaccines.
Santa Clara University fraternity faces consequences for super-spreader event
Santa Clara University administrators are enforcing harsher consequences for violating county COVID-19 orders after an off-campus fraternity party brought dozens of students from the University to gather, many without masks, on Saturday, January 23.
'Zoomers and Roomers:' Los Gatos elementary schools resume in-classroom learning
Exactly a week after the regional stay-at-home order was lifted, students will be heading back to the classroom Monday in Los Gatos.