[4][5][6] He co-wrote The ESPN World Cup Companion: Everything You Need To Know About The Planet's Biggest Sports Event, and appeared in Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos.
[8][9] 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.
"[3][15] 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.
Promoted to senior vice president and executive editor in 2007, Hirshey specialized in politics, current affairs, sports, memoir, pop culture, and humor.
Among others, Hirshey acquired and edited Seymour Hersh's Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Robert Kolker's Lost Girls: An Unsolved Mystery, Jane Leavy's Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee, Dan Barry's Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game, which won the 2013 Pen Award for literary sportswriting, and Allen Kurzweil's Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, the 2016 Edgar Award winner for best crime non-fiction.