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29 March 2024

Hersh to deliver keynote address in media forum

Journalist Seymour Hersh (SUPPLIED)

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By Staff Writer

Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and internationally acclaimed author from Washington, will deliver a special keynote address on the second day of the eighth Arab Media Forum, which will be held on May 11-12 at Atlantis Hotel.

Hersh, whose work over four decades has made him one of the world's most respected journalists, will address the audience at the Forum on the role of investigative journalism in society with special reference to his own experiences in the Middle East.

Najla Al Awadhi, Deputy CEO, Dubai Media Incorporated, will moderate the session.

The presentation by Hersh will be followed by an open interaction with the audience, which will consist of more than 600 top media personalities from the Arab world and beyond.

Hersh's breakthrough stories include the1968 My Lai massacre and its cover up during the Vietnam war, Nixon's secret bombing of Cambodia, the illegal CIA surveillance of antiwar critics inside america, and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers.

Sometimes described as 'the last American reporter' in view of declining rigour in journalism in the country, Hersh has won most of the major journalism prizes in America, including the Pulitzer for international reporting in 1970 and a record five george polk awards. Hersh currently writes for the New Yorker.

 

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