Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will give “A Report from Washington” at Franklin & Marshall College on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at F&M’s Barshinger Center for the Musical Arts in Hensel Hall. It is co-sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts & Society, the Government Department, the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House and the Weinstein Lecture Fund.

Hersh was a reporter for the New York Times from 1972-79 and has been a freelance writer since. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1993. Hersh’s journalism and publishing awards include a Pulitzer Prize for his exposure of the My Lai massacre and cover up during the Vietnam War, five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. He has published eight books including, most recently, Chain of Command, which as based on his reporting on Abu Ghraib for The New Yorker. His book prizes include the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times award for biography, and a Sidney Hillman Foundation award for The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.