Erin Smith Email & Phone Number

• Led the engagement reporting strategy for groundbreaking projects to quantify the youth mental health crisis and uncover systemic failures that led to an infant formula recall.• Launched an innovative, crowdsourcing effort to collect political mailers to fuel campaign reporting and to shine a light on how campaigns and outside groups use mailers to target, persuade and talk to voters.• Collaborated on a nationwide reporting survey exploring to access marijuana for medical treatment as… Show more • Led the engagement reporting strategy for groundbreaking projects to quantify the youth mental health crisis and uncover systemic failures that led to an infant formula recall.• Launched an innovative, crowdsourcing effort to collect political mailers to fuel campaign reporting and to shine a light on how campaigns and outside groups use mailers to target, persuade and talk to voters.• Collaborated on a nationwide reporting survey exploring to access marijuana for medical treatment as part of a larger project funded by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship. Show less

• Launched a national crowdsourcing investigation into tenant scores to examine the secret algorithms screening companies use to rate prospective renters.• Collaborated on outreach and engagement strategy with reporters in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, including a project investigating electricity shutoffs in Detroit.• Conceived and facilitated a broadcast partnership to bring ProPublica's groundbreaking air pollution map to viewers of more than 100 local television stations… Show more • Launched a national crowdsourcing investigation into tenant scores to examine the secret algorithms screening companies use to rate prospective renters.• Collaborated on outreach and engagement strategy with reporters in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, including a project investigating electricity shutoffs in Detroit.• Conceived and facilitated a broadcast partnership to bring ProPublica's groundbreaking air pollution map to viewers of more than 100 local television stations nationwide. Show less

Tampa, Florida

• Led award-winning broadcast and OTT projects that exposed local children being sold for sex and sparked laws to protect seniors exploited in Florida’s guardianship system. • Spurred nationwide recalls after our National Murrow Award-winning, two-year investigation uncovered engine defects in Kia and Hyundai vehicles causing car fires.• Served as a content strategy coach, mentoring reporters across The E.W. Scripps Company to improve their investigative and writing skills.

Boston, Ma

• Uncovered child welfare agencies across the country closed thousands of foster kids’ cases after they went missing. The yearlong investigation, which revealed those children ended up trafficked, dead and homeless, led to policy changes in Georgia and Massachusetts and was referenced by New York Times and Washington Post columnists.• Spearheaded projects revealing hundreds of Boston teachers working without professional licenses, lawmakers charging taxpayers for State House commutes when… Show more • Uncovered child welfare agencies across the country closed thousands of foster kids’ cases after they went missing. The yearlong investigation, which revealed those children ended up trafficked, dead and homeless, led to policy changes in Georgia and Massachusetts and was referenced by New York Times and Washington Post columnists.• Spearheaded projects revealing hundreds of Boston teachers working without professional licenses, lawmakers charging taxpayers for State House commutes when they never showed up to work and the Florida businessmen getting rich from millions of robocalls.• Guided reporters on public record requests and enterprise stories. Show less

Boston, Ma

• Broke award-winning stories for an investigation into the foster care system, which uncovered hundreds of unlicensed social workers, abuse swept under the rug and people with convictions for soliciting a minor allowed to serve as foster parents.• Pushed for public records that revealed thousands of transit workers abusing sick leave during historic snowstorms and secret deals made by politically connected officials as part of Boston’s Olympics bid.• Provided on-the-scene coverage for… Show more • Broke award-winning stories for an investigation into the foster care system, which uncovered hundreds of unlicensed social workers, abuse swept under the rug and people with convictions for soliciting a minor allowed to serve as foster parents.• Pushed for public records that revealed thousands of transit workers abusing sick leave during historic snowstorms and secret deals made by politically connected officials as part of Boston’s Olympics bid.• Provided on-the-scene coverage for breaking news, including the Sandy Hook school shooting and the shootout that killed a Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Show less

Lowell, Ma

• Provided award-winning dispatches for a 2010 trip to Baghdad to cover the continuing violence Massachusetts soldiers and Iraqis faced after the war was declared over.• Filed exclusive reports on illegal hiring practices at a vocational school, police officers suspected of stealing drug evidence and a former school superintendent who stole millions from an agency for special needs students.

Boston, Brookline, Somerville And Cambridge, Ma

• Broke investigations on closed-door government meetings, questionable land deals and the mayor’s taxpayer-funded travel.• Named 2007 News Writer of the Year at GateHouse Media.• Trained and provided guidance to students in the internship program.