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The Least Important Election of a Lifetime

Columbia Journalism Review, June 2024
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Can Sports Journalism Survive in the Era of the Athlete?

Columbia Journalism Review, March 2024
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The Anti-Terror Raid That Asked All the Wrong Questions

Buzzfeed News, December 2015
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Alan Gross and the High Cost of Democracy Promotion

Buzzfeed News, June 2015
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The Lessons of Atmeh

Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014
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In Damascus, Everyone Comes to the Zeriab Cafe

The New Yorker, April 2014
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The Worries of a Syrian Rebel Commander

The New Yorker, December 2013
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The Battle of the Archives: What Egypt's Intellectuals Lost

The New Yorker, September 2013
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Portrait of a Cairo Liberal as a Military Backer

The New Yorker, August 2013
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About

Josh 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 senior editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, and the host of CJR’s podcast, The Kicker.

Prior 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 writing 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.

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