Michael Goldstein

Michael Goldstein (June 7, 1938 – May 19, 2018) was an American music publicist and journalist who was the founder of the SoHo Weekly News, an alternative newspaper published in New York City from 1973 to 1982. Prior to starting the paper, he worked in public relations. Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, and the Grateful Dead.

Goldstein was born on June 7, 1938, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He was educated at Boston University, where he studied opera.

After Goldstein's death, Yukie Ohta of the SoHo Memory Project described him as "One of SoHo's great influencers". In the 1980s and 1990s, he sold merchandise on the Home Shopping Network. He worked for CBS News as a reporter, and had a role in Woody Allen's 1980 movie, Stardust Memories. Goldstein died at home on May 19, 2018, of pancreatic cancer.