New York Daily News, Esquire Following his graduation, Hirshey was hired as a reporter at
The New York Daily News, where he covered major sporting events including
The Olympics,
The US Open, and the
World Series. In 1975 he broke the story that Pelé was coming to New York to play for the
New York Cosmos. In 1978, he was named editor of the paper's
Sunday News Magazine. In that position, he worked with writers including
Jimmy Breslin and
Pete Hamill. Five of Hirshey's articles for the
Daily News were anthologized in Houghton Mifflin's annual
Best Sports Stories of the Year. Hirshey was hired by
Esquire as a senior editor in 1984. Two years later he was promoted to articles editor, and in 1991 was named deputy editor. In addition to editing long form pieces in the magazine, he oversaw the annual "Dubious Achievement Awards" issue, which was described by
The Washington Post as "hands down, the funniest year end issue of them all."
The New Yorker, Harper Collins After leaving
Esquire in 1997, Hirshey was hired as an editor at the
New Yorker, where he assigned, developed and edited articles on future trends in politics, science, business, entertainment, culminating with "The Next Issue." In May 2016, Hirshey announced that he would leave HarperCollins to relocate to Los Angeles. In late 2016 he was named a contributing editor at
Esquire. Kicking and Screaming, Eight by Eight From 2010 through 2017, Hirshey wrote the weekly soccer column
Kicking and Screaming for
ESPN.com, In 2018, he became writer-at-large for the soccer magazine
Eight by Eight. His 2019 interview with
Megan Rapinoe went viral and ignited a
Twitter feud with then-president
Donald Trump. == Bibliography ==