Larry Goldberg

Director, Media Access Group Director at WGBH and The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM)

Larry Goldberg is the founder and director of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at Boston's public broadcaster WGBH, where he started in caption operations in 1985. For more than a decade he directed WGBH's Caption Center and Descriptive Video Service (now known as the Media Access Group) and now focuses on research and development, public policy initiatives and strategic corporate and governmental partnerships.

Larry was instrumental in the development of the specifications for digital television closed captioning in the U.S. and recently co-chaired the FCC's Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee which was established as a result of the "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act." NCAM is active with numerous standards groups, most recently focusing on the enhancement of web-based media for accessibility.

Larry received a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California.