Gold was a founding producer and host for Vice News, and has written featured stories for The Wall Street Journal, Esquire, and The New York Times, among others.

Gold covered the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013[7] and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for The Wall Street Journal[8] and reported from Myanmar for NBC News.

During his first report from Syria during its civil war in 2012, Gold gained some of the earliest access to the People's Protection Units (YPG).

Gold headed Vice's breaking news coverage of the 2014 attack on Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

He spent time on the frontline in Mosul during the early stages, and later embedded with Kurdish militia forces in the northern city of Kirkuk.

In 2018, he received a Pulitzer Center grant to investigate the effects of American deportation, as well as methods for escaping the cycle of gang violence.