Michael Hirsh (journalist)

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Michael Hirsh is an American journalist. He is a senior correspondent and the deputy news editor for Foreign Policy.

Early life[]

Michael Hirsh was born in 1957.[1] He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in 1979 with a B.A. in philosophy, and took his graduate degree in international and public affairs[disambiguation needed] at Columbia University.[1]

Career[]

He was the former national editor for Politico. He resigned from Politico on November 22, 2016 after publishing the home addresses of white nationalist[2] Richard B. Spencer on Facebook and attempting to organize an assault on Spencer.[2] Hirsh called Spencer a Nazi after Spencer declared "Hail Trump!" and "Hail our people!" at a conference in Washington, D.C., declarations in response to which audience members performed Nazi salutes.[3]

Hirsh is the former foreign editor, chief diplomatic correspondent and national economic correspondent for Newsweek, as well as a former member of JournoList. He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and is a frequent guest of The Young Turks, a streaming internet political talk show. In addition to Newsweek, he has written for The Washington Post, Politico Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, and Washington Monthly. Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for "prescience in identifying the al Qaeda threat half a year before the September 11 attacks" and for Newsweek's coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award. Hirsh also co-authored (with Rod Nordland) the November 3, 2003 cover story, "Bush's $87 Billion Mess," about the Iraq reconstruction plan, one of three issues that won Newsweek its second National Magazine Award for General Excellence in three years.

Writing[]

In his first book, Capital Offense, Hirsh argues that in the 2008 financial crisis, "otherwise intelligent and capable men like Greenspan, Rubin and Summers — and later Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner — permitted themselves to believe, in the face of a rising tide of contrary evidence, that markets are for the most part efficient and work well on their own."[4] Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times noted that much of the book's content had previously been covered in books by other authors (namely Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm, David Wessel, Daniel Gross and Joseph E. Stiglitz), but stated that Hirsh still "does a highly informed, if decidedly opinionated, job of situating these developments within a historical context, and the book makes for useful and succinct reading."[4]

Personal life[]

Hirsh lives[when?] in Northwest, Washington, D.C.[1]

Awards[]

  • Deadline Club Award (1997).
For investigative reporting exposing IRS's abusive practices.[1]
  • Overseas Press Club Award (2001).
For best magazine reporting from abroad in Newsweek's coverage of terrorism.[1]
  • Ed Cunningham Award (2002), with others.
For best magazine reporting from abroad in Newsweek's coverage of terrorism.[1]
  • National Magazine Award.
For Newsweek's coverage of the war on terror.[1]

Publications[]

Books[]

  • At War with Ourselves: Why America is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World. Oxford University Press (2003). ISBN 978-0195152692. OCLC 123203357.
  • None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism. New York: New American Library (2003). ISBN 978-0451209832. OCLC 1200545093.
  • The Liberators: America's Witnesses to the Holocaust. New York: Bantam Books (2010). ISBN 978-0553807561.
  • Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons (2010). ISBN 978-0470520673.

Articles[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g "Hirsh, Michael 1957– ." Contemporary Authors. Encyclopedia.com (September 8, 2021).
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Politico editor resigns after sharing addresses of white nationalist on Facebook". CNBC. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  3. ^ Appelbaum, Daniel Lombroso and Yoni. "'Hail Trump!': Video of White Nationalists Cheering the President-Elect". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Kakutani, Michiko. "Deeper Looks at the Crisis of ’08 and the Oval Office." Review of Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future Over to Wall Street, by Michael Hirsh. New York Times (December 13, 2010). Archived from the original.

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