Stephen G. Smith (writer)

Last updated
Stephen G. Smith
Born
Stephen Grant Smith

(1949-03-06) March 6, 1949 (age 75)
Education Deerfield Academy
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)journalist, writer, editor
Employer Atlantic Media
Spouse Sally Bedell Smith
AwardsErnie Pyle Award
National Magazine Award

Stephen Grant Smith (born March 6, 1949) is an American writer and editor. He was a senior editor at Atlantic Media and held senior-level editing positions at Newsweek , Time , and U.S. News & World Report . [1] [2]

Contents

Early life

Smith grew up in New York City. He is the son of Nora (O'Leary), a fashion editor of Family Circle , and John J. Smith, a partner at an investment bank. [2]

He graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1967. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a B.A. in history in 1971. [3] While there, he was a member of literary fraternity St. Anthony Hall. [4]

Career

Smith began his career as a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the AlbanyTimes Union. He was an editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Boston Globe , where he won the Ernie Pyle Award in 1977 for human interest storytelling. [5] [2]

In 1978, he moved to New York to become a senior editor at Horizon . [6] He went on to Time magazine, where he began as press writer in November 1978, rising to senior editor in 1981 and ultimately Nation section editor the following year. [6] [7] In 1986, Smith was recruited by Newsweek to be its executive editor, a post he held until 1991, when he moved to Washington to become news editor of Knight Ridder. [8] [1]

In 1994, Smith was the founding editor of Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. [9] [10] He left to work at National Journal in 1996, and was named editor of U.S. News & World Report in 1998, where he remained until 2001. [11] U.S. News on a National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online while he was its editor. [12]

Following a brief stint as vice president of communications at the Brookings Institution, Smith returned to journalism in 2004 to become Washington bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle , followed by an eight-year run as editor of The Washington Examiner. [13] [12] In this position, Smith oversaw The Examiner's transition from daily print tabloid to a weekly magazine focused on national politics and policy. [14] He stepped down in August 2014.

In 2016, Smith returned to Atlantic Media's National Journal, where he served as editor in chief for two years before becoming a senior editor at the parent company. [15] [16] He stayed in that position through 2018.

Professional affiliations

Smith served on the board of the National Press Foundation from 2005 to 2011. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. [12] He has been a member of the American Society of News Editors, American Society of Magazine Editors, National Press Club, and Overseas Press Club. At the University of Pennsylvania, he has been chairman of the Publications Committee. [17] [18]

Personal life

On May 22, 1982, he married Sarah Rowbotham Bedell at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City. [2] She is the daughter of James Rowbotham of St. David's, Pennsylvania, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general. [2] She is a biographer and historian known as Sally Bedell Smith. [12] The couple has three children. [12] They live in Washington, D.C.

He has served on the board of overseers of the University of Pennsylvania, and as a member of the university's Athletics Advisory Board. [19] [20] [12]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hearst Communications</span> American multinational mass media conglomerate group

Hearst Communications, Inc. is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United Press International</span> American international news agency

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s. At its peak, it had more than 6,000 media subscribers. Since the first of several sales and staff cutbacks in 1982, and the 1999 sale of its broadcast client list to its main U.S. rival, the Associated Press, UPI has concentrated on smaller information-market niches.

<i>The Weekly Standard</i> US opinion magazine (1995–2018)

The Weekly Standard was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis, and commentary that was published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard was described as a "redoubt of neoconservatism" and as "the neocon bible." Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title on September 18, 1995. In 2009, News Corporation sold the magazine to a subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation. On December 14, 2018, its owners announced that the magazine would cease publication, with the last issue to be published on December 17. Sources have attributed its demise to an increasing divergence between Kristol and other editors' shift towards anti-Trump positions on the one hand, and the magazine's audience's shift towards Trumpism on the other.

<i>Newsweek</i> Weekly magazine based in New York City

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine. Founded as a weekly print magazine in 1933, Newsweek was widely distributed during the 20th century and had many notable editors-in-chief. It is currently co-owned by Dev Pragad, the president and CEO, and Johnathan Davis who sits on the board; they each own 50% of the company.

<i>The New Republic</i> American magazine

The New Republic is an American publisher focused on domestic politics, news, culture, and the arts, with ten magazines a year and a daily online platform. The New York Times described the magazine as partially founded in Teddy Roosevelt's living room and known for its "intellectual rigor and left-leaning political views."

<i>The Daily Pennsylvanian</i> Student newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Daily Pennsylvanian, Inc. is the independent student media organization of the University of Pennsylvania. The DP, Inc. publishes The Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper, 34th Street magazine, and Under the Button, as well as five newsletters: The Daily Pennsylvanian, The Weekly Roundup, The Toast, Quaker Nation, and Penn, Unbuttoned.

Mark Whitaker is an American author, journalist and media executive.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen F. Hayes</span> American journalist

Stephen Forester Hayes is an American journalist and author. In October 2019 Hayes co-founded the online opinion and news publication The Dispatch. Previously, he was a senior writer for National Journal and Editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard. He was a staunch proponent of the Iraq War and an influential figure in promoting the debunked conspiracy that Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda had an operational relationship.

<i>Washington Square News</i> Weekly student newspaper of New York University

Washington Square News (WSN) is the weekly student newspaper of New York University (NYU). It has a circulation of 10,000 and an estimated 55,000 online readers. It is published in print on Monday, in addition to online publication Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with additional issues published in the summer. It serves the NYU, Greenwich Village, and East Village communities in Manhattan, New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Howard Fineman</span> American journalist (1948–2024)

Howard David Fineman was an American journalist and television commentator. In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Fineman covered nine presidential campaigns as a reporter, writer, and analyst. For 30 years, he drove Newsweek magazine's political coverage. At the height of the publication's influence, Fineman was its chief political correspondent, senior editor, and deputy Washington bureau chief. His "Living Politics" column was posted weekly on Newsweek.com. After his tenure at Newsweek, he was named global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clifford May</span> American journalist and political activist (born 1951)

Clifford D. May is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he hosts the podcast Foreign Podicy. He is the weekly "Foreign Desk" columnist for The Washington Times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Meacham</span> American journalist and biographer (born 1969)

Jon Ellis Meacham is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

The Scripps Howard Awards, formerly the National Journalism Awards, are $10,000 awards in American journalism given by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Awardees receive "cash prizes, citations and plaques."

The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. Founded in 2008, the website is owned by IAC Inc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sally Bedell Smith</span> American historian and author

Sarah Bedell Smith is an American journalist and biographer. She has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair since 1996. Previously, she was a cultural news reporter for The New York Times and Time. She has written biographies of political, cultural, and business figures in the United States and members of the British royal family.

Michael Hirsh is an American journalist. He is a columnist for Foreign Policy.

Stephen B. Shepard is an American business journalist and academic who served as editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek magazine and was the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">J. Ross Baughman</span> American photojournalist

John Ross Baughman, known as J. Ross Baughman, is an American photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his portfolio showing the brutal treatment of prisoners by Rhodesian Security Forces personnel in the fall of 1977.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael J. Elliott</span> British journalist and executive

Michael John Elliott OBE was a British journalist and executive, long-based in the United States. He was the president and chief executive officer of the anti-poverty advocacy organization ONE.

Jane Ellen Amsterdam is a former American magazine and newspaper editor. After successive magazine editorships during the 1970s, she joined The Washington Post as section editor. She later became founding editor of Manhattan, inc. magazine, and was widely credited with making it into a dynamic, National Magazine Award-winning magazine. She later joined the New York Post, becoming the first female editor of a major New York City newspaper. At the New York Post, she worked to increase the paper's credibility and journalism standards. By the time she left the Post in 1989, she was one of only six women in the country editing a newspaper with a circulation of over 100,000.

References

  1. 1 2 Schwartz, Jerry (2012-10-18). "Going out of print, Newsweek ends an era". CNBC. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Sarah Bedell Wed to Stephen Smith". The New York Times. 1982-05-23.
  3. ↑ "Stephen G. Smith". Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  4. ↑ "Thank You , Generous Delta Brothers". The Delta Prose. St. Anthony Hall of the University of Pennsylvania: 2. Summer 2017.
  5. ↑ "Scripps Howard Awards (Past winners)" (PDF). Scripps Howard. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  6. 1 2 "A Letter from the Publisher". TIME. February 25, 1980. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  7. ↑ "TIME Masthead". TIME. July 13, 1981.
  8. ↑ Jones, Alex S. (January 27, 1992). "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; Washington Times Moves to Reinvent Itself". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Smith, Dinitia (April 24, 1996). "National Magazine Award to Business Week". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Civilization Magazine Debuts This November". Library of Congress. Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  11. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin (August 3, 1998). "Into the Breach; Editor Steps into the Heart of Turbulence at U.S. News". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stephen G. Smith, Former Editor of U.S. News & World Report, Named Vice President for Communications at Brookings". Brookings Institution. May 2, 2003. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  13. ↑ "Veteran journalist named Chronicle's D.C. bureau chief". Houston Chronicle. December 5, 2004. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  14. ↑ Wemple, Erik (March 19, 2013). "Washington Examiner editor: 'A day of torn feelings'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  15. ↑ "Stephen G. Smith Named Editor in Chief of National Journal" (PDF). October 29, 2015.
  16. ↑ Gold, Hadas (October 29, 2015). "Stephen G. Smith named National Journal editor-in-chief". POLITICO. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  17. ↑ Pennsylvania Gazette. Vol. 95, no. 1. University of Pennsylvania. October 1996.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. ↑  Pennsylvania Gazette. Vol. 95, no. 1. University of Pennsylvania. October 1996.
  19. ↑ University of Pennsylvania Almanac
  20. ↑ "Minutes of the University of Pennsylvania Trustees". University of Pennsylvania Board of Trustees
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.