Seymour Hersh - Reporter

Seymour M. Hersh has been a staff writer for The New Yorker and The New York Times. He established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism in 1970 when he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his exposé of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam. Since then he has received the National Magazine Award for Public Interest twice, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orwell Prize, and dozens of other awards. Hersh has just released his memoir Reporter, which includes previously unreported information about some of his biggest scoops, including My Lai and the horrors at Abu Ghraib.