Seymour Hersh

Seymour Hersh is widely regarded as one of the most important investigative journalists in American history. In 1969, he broke the story of the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War — a revelation that shifted public opinion and reshaped American journalism. He went on to expose CIA domestic surveillance (the "Family Jewels"), the bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's role in the illegal bombing campaign, and later, the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in 2004. Hersh has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the London Review of Books. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1970 and has received numerous Polk Awards and George Orwell Awards.