Wednesday, November 2

We heard from international journalist Terence Smith, whom many of us remember from the PBS Newshour.  Terence Smith is an award-winning journalist who has been a political reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and television analyst over the course of a four-decade career.

He spent 20 years with The New York Times, including eight years abroad in the Middle East and Far east, covering four wars, peace negotiations and the day-to-day lives of people in more than 40 countries.  Smith also served as Assistant Foreign Editor and Deputy Metropolitan Editor in New York.  In the paper’s Washington bureau, he served as diplomatic correspondent before founding and editing the popular Washington Talk page.

In 1985, Smith joined CBS News in Washington, covering the Reagan White House and for nine years, reporting the cover stories for CBS Sunday Morning.  He earned two Emmys for work on the broadcast “48 Hours” and shared in the George Foster Peabody Award for general excellence given to the staff of CBS Sunday Morning.

In 1998, Smith turned to public television, founding and leading the media unit at The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.  In the course of seven years, Smith and his unit won 18 national awards and honors for media criticism and analysis.  He is now a special correspondent for The NewsHour.

Smith is a 2013 inductee to the Society of Professional Journalists’ Hall of Fame.

He currently serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Chesapeake Bay Trust. Previously, he was a member of the advisory board of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and the Board of Visitors of the Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Married with two grown children and three grandchildren, he lives with his wife, Susy, in Annapolis, writes a regular column for The Annapolis Capital and is World Affairs speaker aboard Crystal Cruise ships around the world.