SEYMOUR HERSH
Name: Seymour Hersh
Born: 8 April 1937 Chicago, United States
Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American Pulitzer Prize
winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a
regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
His work first gained worldwide 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. His 2004 reports on the US military's
mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison gained much attention.
Hersh received the 2004 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting given
annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic
integrity and investigative reporting. This was his fifth George Polk Award, the
first one being a Special Award given to him in 1969.
In 2006 he reported on the US military's plans for Iran, which allegedly called
for the use of nuclear weapons against that country.
Name: Seymour Hersh
Born: 8 April 1937 Chicago, United States
Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American Pulitzer Prize
winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a
regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.
His work first gained worldwide 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. His 2004 reports on the US military's
mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison gained much attention.
Hersh received the 2004 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting given
annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic
integrity and investigative reporting. This was his fifth George Polk Award, the
first one being a Special Award given to him in 1969.
In 2006 he reported on the US military's plans for Iran, which allegedly called
for the use of nuclear weapons against that country.