Seymour Hersh

Seymour Myron Hersh (born April 8, 1937) 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. From the 2010s onward, several of Hersh's investigations became increasingly controversial. His reporting on the Ghouta chemical attack, the Osama bin Laden raid, the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, and the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage was disputed by other journalists, investigators, and open-source researchers. His later reporting has also attracted criticism for its reliance on anonymous sources and the level of editorial review applied to work published outside The New Yorker. In 2023, Hersh alleged that the United States and Norway were responsible for the Nord Stream sabotage, an account he based on a single anonymous source.

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