Sarah Smith Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Covering housing, poverty, mental health, and religion.

Houston, Texas Area

- Broke a story about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s failure to oversee one of its biggest national contractors.- Wrote narrative enterprise stories, including narratives on the traumas of COVID, the impact of an unsolved murder on a family, a formerly homeless woman readjusting to housing

-Broke an exclusive national story on sexual abuse and coverups in independent fundamental Baptist churches. -Broke a story on the missionary arm of the Southern Baptist Convention covering up sexual abuse.

-Investigated the failings of Mississippi’s state mental hospitals to evaluate defendants and get them a speedy trial, focusing on the story of a boy imprisoned at 16 and awaiting an evaluation for four years.-Investigated Connecticut’s practice of arresting both victims and abusers in domestic violence police calls. Story led to a law change.

Jackson, Mississippi

-Wrote pieces for the politics section such as a sketch of a Trump rally; fact-checked, uploaded and set social media for daily articles in the politics section, live-blogged, wrote newsletters,

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Pitched and wrote magazine stories to bring out the quirky side of the Hill, developed sources in Congress-Fact-checked the cover story and all other stories in the magazine each week

Covered federal trials, profiled an officer at the center of a trial about corruption on the narcotics unit, covered breaking stories like the shooting of a police officer.

-Wrote investigative pieces such as a story exposing deep-seated problems in Penn's mental health system based on leaked documents-Co-wrote and coordinated a four day, five-story series about sexual assault that took 10 months to report-Supervised a team of 10 beat reporters and edited stories daily

Wrote stories under tight deadlines on the ever-changing DC political scene. Extensive yet fast research on policy issues.

-Investigated police misconduct. Story resulted in a victim receiving compensation for injuries and a review of police practices.