She was born Miriam Harris in a Chicago hospital and grew up in Denver in a Jewish family.
[2][7] Max founded and ran an advertising agency which handled publicity for gubernatorial, congressional, and senatorial candidates.
[5] In 1943 he bought the Intermountain Jewish News, which had been established in 1913 and had passed through a succession of owners,[2] for the purchase price of one dollar.
[2] Goldberg was a past vice president of Hadassah and a former executive board member of the Colorado Press Association.
[2] Colorado Governor Richard Lamm declared September 9, 1982, as "Miriam Goldberg Recognition Day".