Hedrick Smith
Hedrick Smith | |
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| Born | July 9, 1933 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Williams College Balliol College, Oxford Harvard University |
| Years active | 1959 - present |
| Employer(s) | The New York Times (1962-1988) Hedrick Smith Productions (1989-2012) |
| Notable work | The Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, The Pentagon Papers (co-authored), The New Russians, Rethinking America, Who Stole the American Dream? |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting Pulitzer Prize for Public Service 2x Emmy award winner Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (1991) |
| Honours | Nieman Fellow at Harvard (1969-1970) Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University (1955-56) |
| Website | ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org |
Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962-88 as correspondent, editor and bureau chief in both Moscow and Washington, Smith moved into television in 1989, reporting and producing more than 50 hours of long-form documentaries for PBS over the next 25 years on topics from the inside story of the terrorists who mounted the 9/11 attacks and Gorbachev's perestroika to Wall Street, Walmart and The Democracy Rebellion of grassroots citizen reform movements. Smith has authored five best-selling books including The Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, and Who Stole the American Dream?, and co-authored several other books, including The Pentagon Papers and Reagan: The Man, the President. Smith is currently Executive Editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org and the YouTube channel The People vs. The Politicians.