---
name: "Jeff Gerth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-gerth"
fi1m_id: "jeff-gerth"
imdb_id: "nm10274411"
tmdb_id: 5941669
wikidata_id: "Q6173885"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:59:45.577855+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jeff Gerth

## Identity

Jeff Gerth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jeff-gerth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jeff-gerth
- **IMDb ID:** nm10274411
- **TMDB ID:** 5941669
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6173885
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6173885, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10274411/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5941669

Actor. Born 1 January 1944.

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1944
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6173885, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10274411/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5941669

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Cover-Up*](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md) (80)

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## Biography

Jeff Gerth is an American investigative journalist. He worked at The New York Times from 1976 to 2005, reporting on topics including the Whitewater controversy and the transfer of American satellite-launch technology to China.

In 1999, Gerth shared a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting as part of a New York Times team. He is the co-author, with Don Van Natta Jr., of the 2007 book *Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton*. Gerth appears as himself in the 2025 documentary *Cover-Up*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, propublica.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Cover-Up* (2025), Fi1m 80, as Self - The New York Times — [page](https://film.one/film/cover-up.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting 1999: Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (won), for *The New York Times*
- George Polk Award 1981: George Polk Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/jeff-gerth