14 Facts About Hedrick Smith

Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent.

Hedrick Smith was born on July 9,1933, in Kilmacolm, Scotland.

Hedrick Smith served in the US Air Force from 1956 to 1959.

Hedrick Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting from Russia and Eastern Europe in 1974.

In 1975, Hedrick Smith became deputy national editor of the Times and then moved on to serve as Washington Bureau Chief and Chief Washington Correspondent.

Hedrick Smith followed up with a pioneering PBS four-hour documentary series Inside Gorbachev's USSR, exploiting his knowledge of Russia history and his ability to conduct TV interviews in Russian to get American television's first broad inside look at Gorbachev's perestroika reform campaign That series won the prestigious Columbia- Dupont Gold Baton, or grand prize, for the best public affairs program on US television in 1991.

Hedrick Smith has won all of television's major awards with other PBS programs.

In 2002, Hedrick Smith shared the prestigious duPont-Columbia Gold Baton for Inside the Terror Network, his in-depth account of the al Qaeda bombers organizing, training and preparing for their attack on the US on September 11,2001.

Hedrick Smith received a Fulbright Scholarship to study Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University in 1955.

Hedrick Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1974 for stories from Russia and Eastern Europe.

Hedrick Smith has won or shared the Columbia-Dupont Gold Baton for the year's best public affairs program on US television twice.

Hedrick Smith has won the George Polk, George Peabody and Hillman awards for his excellence in reporting along with two national public service awards.

Hedrick Smith is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Gridiron Club.

Hedrick Smith has produced 24 programs and miniseries, four one-hour PBS specials, 11 Frontline productions, and nine NewsHour segments.