Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American journalist and political writer. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and has also written for the London Review of Books since 2013.[1][2]
He won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered Watergate for The New York Times. In 2004, he received the George Orwell Award.[3]