Steve Smith Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

I have contributed regularly to The New York Times since 2006, writing primarily about music, arts and popular culture. From 2006 to 2014 I was a contracted freelancer, submitting an average of three concert reviews and multiple calendar items every week, in addition to features, news articles, album reviews, and blog posts. After a pause between 2014 and.

New York, New York, United States

• Commissioned, edited, and supervised the production of arts and culture stories by two staffreporters, newsroom staffers from other desks, and prominent and emerging freelancers to air onlocal segments of the daily.
• Edited, built, and published digital versions of radio stories, as well as original digital-firstcontent, on Gothamist.
• Served one day a week (originally Saturdays and then Mondays) as the general-assignment editor,determining and editing coverage of breaking news and current events.
• Liaised and collaborated daily with editors and reporters on other newsroom desks, and witheditors and producers on shows and podcasts.
• Appeared regularly on Weekend Edition, The Brian Lehrer Show and All of It, providing culturalanalysis and event recommendations covering music, museums and galleries, theater, and film.

New York, New York, United States

• Commissioned, edited, and supervised production of stories and reviews by five staff reporters,two staff critics, an NPR Music reporter, and prominent and emerging freelancers, for airing onNPR’s daily shows Morning.
• Edited, built, and published the digital versions of those stories as well as original digital-firstcontent on NPR.org.
• Coordinated breaking-news coverage and liaised with other desks and departments daily.
• Wrote web articles and recorded podcast contributions for NPR and NPR Music websites.(Initially contracted to work through June 2021; contracted extended quarterly through March2022.)

New York, New York, United States

As a freelance contributor, pitched and wrote capsule listings for classical music events for the “GoingsOn About Town” section. (From June 2018, my contributions included my byline.)

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• For National Sawdust, a concert venue and performing-arts incubator in Williamsburg, I createdand oversaw National Sawdust Log (initially The Log Journal), a webzine featuring interviewswith composers, performers, and.
• Assigned and edited content provided by both recognized and emerging writers; produce thewebsite; and promoted content on social media.
• Jointly conceived and solely oversaw the Hildegard series, a department devoted to interviewswith and essays by women and female-identifying composers and performers.
• Developed, edited and cowrote a weekly newsletter that aggregated Log stories, noteworthyarticles from other publications, and original content.
• Developed a physical digest of selected articles circulated in the venue.
• Conducted in-person interviews during live events. (Publication discontinued March 31, 2020.)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Assigned and edited all music and visual arts coverage, working with five staff critics (two popmusic, one classical music, two art), one full-time arts reporter, and a dozen regular freelancers.
• Reported news, profiled artists, and reviewed concerts regularly; participated in enterprise andfront-page planning meetings.
• Edited numerous A-1 arts and culture stories and wrote three front-page features myself.

New York, New York, United States

• Assigned and edited pop music coverage (inclusive of all non-classical genres, including jazz,world music, hip-hop, R&B, country & folk, and cabaret), and directed five full-time staffwriters.
• Managed freelance budgets.
• Liaised with other editorial departments as well as design, online and promotional departments.
• Conceived and supervised The Volume, a constantly updated music blog, in January 2009.(Discontinued in 2012 when dynamic content was incorporated throughout Time Out website.)
• Organized and directed music-related front-cover packages, including “The 100 Best NYCSongs” (March 2012) and a celebrity-editor takeover in which the Jonas Brothers assigned musiccontent for a week (August 2009), with.
• Hired and supervised three consecutive Classical Music and Opera Editors, who assumedresponsibility for writing and editing the magazine’s classical music coverage.

New York, New York, United States

For Billboard, the principal trade publication covering the recording industry, wrote a regular column,“The Classical Score,” which ran weekly until December 2002 and biweekly thereafter. Wrote features onthe classical music recording industry, and planned and created features for the magazine’s annual“Classical Spotlight” issue. Columns and articles were.