Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent, addressed a group on Shaw Island on Saturday, August 28.


Hedrick Smith Shaw Island 8.28.21 – SD 480p.mov from Louis Whitford on Vimeo.

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 is currently Executive Editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org.


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