# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedrick-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:04:26.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hedrick-smith"
name: "Hedrick Smith"
slug: "hedrick-smith"
description: "Hedrick Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning producer and correspondent. After serving 26 years with The New York Times from 1962 to 1988 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 has authored five best-selling books including The Russians, The Power Game: How Washington Works, and Who Stole the American Dream?, and co-authored several other books, including The Pentagon Papers and Reagan: The Man, the President. Smith is currently Executive Editor of the website ReclaimTheAmericanDream.org and the YouTube channel The People vs. The Politicians."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedrick_Smith_May_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1933-07-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.93
  momentum:             0.7220216606498195
  historical:           6.554717333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Смит, Хедрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيدريك سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيدريك سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hedrick Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedrick_Smith"
    title: "Hedrick Smith"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedrick_Smith"
    title: "Hedrick Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedrick_Smith"
    title: "Hedrick Smith"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump