Hersh, Seymour Myron, 1937-, American investigative journalist, b. Chicago, grad. Univ. of Chicago (1958). He began his career (1959) at a local news bureau, then became a wire service correspondent, and was press secretary to presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. Working as a freelancer, he broke (1969) the story of the My Lai incident, a civilian massacre during the Vietnam War. This reporting earned him an international reputation and a Pulitzer Prize (1970), and was amplified in the books My Lai 4 (1970) and Cover Up (1972). Hersh subsequently worked for the New York Times (1972-75, 1979), covering the Watergate affair, the CIA's role in domestic spying and the overthrow of Chile's President Allende, the downing of Korean Airlines Flight 007, and the India-Pakistan conflict. His reporting on the Nixon administration led to The Price of Power (1983), a scathing portrait of Henry Kissinger. A contributor to the New Yorker since 1993, Hersh has written extensively about post-9/11 America, the Bush administration, national security, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in 2004 he broke the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story. Many of these articles were collected in Chain of Command (2004).

Hersh (הערש) refers to the first name and family names:Given names:

• Hersh Leib Sigheter
• Hersh Wolch

Hersh may also be a nickname for Herschel.Last names:

• Arek Hersh, German Nazi Holocaust survivor and writer
• Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter
• Reuben Hersh, American mathematician
• Seymour "Sy" Hersh, American journalist

See also

• Hersch