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Seymour Hersh

(1937) Journalist United States

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Seymour Hersh is a journalist from the United States, best known for Chain of Command.

Quick Facts About Seymour Hersh

Born
April 8, 1937
Nationality
United States
Profession
Journalist
Notable works
Chain of Command
Known for
The Killing of Osama bin Laden

About Seymour Hersh

Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh is an American investigative journalist and political writer. He gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times, also reporting on the secret U.S. bombing of Cambodia and the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) program of domestic spying. In 2004, he detailed the U.S. military's torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq for The New Yorker. Hersh has won five George Polk Awards and two National Magazine Awards. He is the author of 11 books, including The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983), an account of the career of Henry Kissinger that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

George Polk Award Preis für die Freiheit und Zukunft der Medien Orwell Award Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting James Aronson Award Q6533207 Sam Adams Award Worth Bingham Prize
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LennonOno Grant for Peace Carey McWilliams Award The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism The Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award for Cultural and Political Journalism

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