Education
Gottlieb attended Queens College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He received a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1979.
He has taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at New York University. In 2008, Gottlieb was the James H. Ottoway Professor of Journalism at State University of New York New Paltz and, in 2009, he was a Princeton University Council of Humanities Professor of Journalism.