Daniel L. Golden (born 1957) is an American journalist, working as a senior editor and reporter for ProPublica.

From 1986 to 1993, Golden wrote for the Globe's Sunday "Focus" section and weekly magazine.

[5] As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of The Wall Street Journal he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students,[7] and the use of development cases (admissions based on potential donations).

[10] A series of articles that Golden edited about Corporate Tax Inversions won Bloomberg's first Pulitzer Prize in 2015.

[11] Golden also co-edited a ProPublica series on Latin American asylum-seekers caught between the U.S. government and the MS-13 gang, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.