Zach Hirsch is an award-winning journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. He is a senior producer for Click Here, a cyber news podcast hosted by former NPR correspondent Dina Temple-Raston.
Last year he co-hosted If All Else Fails, a limited series about far-right movements in upstate New York. After its release, the podcast was recommended by NPR, WNYC, and The New Yorker. More recently, the show received a Signal Award and was nominated for a Webby. A previous reporting project covering Rep. Elise Stefanik was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Hirsch studied Cultural Anthropology and hosted his first radio show at the University of Vermont before attending the Transom Story Workshop, a residential audio program in Woods Hole, MA. From there he joined North Country Public Radio as a staff reporter-producer, covering politics, identity, and immigration stories for five years before moving to NYC.