Seymour Hersh (born 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer whose reporting has focused on war, national security, government conduct, and the exercise of power. He became widely known in 1969 for his reporting on the Vietnam War tragedy at My Lai, published through Dispatch News Service. That work received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
Hersh’s reporting career has included work for the New York Times and as a staff writer for The New Yorker. Across articles and books, he has investigated subjects including the Vietnam War, U.S. foreign policy, intelligence institutions, and the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His 2018 memoir, Reporter, recounts the reporting, sourcing, and editorial circumstances behind major stories from his career.
His book The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1983. Hersh publishes under his own name through Seymour Hersh’s Substack newsletter, a continuation of his public-facing work as a writer and commentator.
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