Seymour Hersh

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Seymour Hersh

Communications

#1480

World Rank

#2213

Historical Rank

#716

USA Rank

Journalism

#490

World Rank

#559

Historical Rank

#339

USA Rank

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Why Is Seymour Hersh Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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 CIA's 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 a record 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 , an account of the career of Henry Kissinger which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Seymour Hersh?

Seymour Hersh is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Chicago