About

Joshua Hersh is an award-winning journalist, editor, and senior producer. Beginning in 2016, he was one of the original correspondents for Vice News Tonight on HBO, before becoming a senior producer on the domestic news team. He was the correspondent and co-producer of “Aging, Inc.,” a Vice News documentary that won the 2022 News Emmy for Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage. He is currently a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, and the host of CJR’s podcast, The Kicker.

Prior to coming to Vice, Josh was the 2015 Michael Hastings Fellow at BuzzFeed News. From 2011 to 2014, he was a reporter for the Huffington Post, covering the State Department from Washington, DC, and later becoming a Middle East correspondent based in Beirut and Istanbul. Before that, he worked as a freelancer in the Middle East, and a fact checker at the New Yorker magazine.

His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Daily Beast, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New Republic and elsewhere. He lives in New York with his wife and dog.