This is the Web site of journalist Jeremy Smerd.
Jeremy is a reporter for Crain’s New York Business, covering politics and government.
Prior to that, he was a staff writer in New York City for Workforce Management magazine, also published by Crain Communications. As the magazine’s health care reporter, Jeremy has written extensively about the employer-based health care system in the United States and its impact on business and society. He has focused his reporting on the problems high health care costs and erratic medical quality pose to employers and their workers competing in a global marketplace. Jeremy has also written about the strategies, both failed and successful, employers have used to spend their health care dollars more effectively.
Jeremy’s coverage earned him the National Institute for Health Care Management’s journalism award in 2008. In 2007, he was a health care fellow at The New York Times Foundation for Journalists. His reporting has taken him across the country and as far off as India, where he reported a multi-part series on the state of outsourcing and its consequences for American businesses.
Prior to Workforce Management, Jeremy covered the country’s largest public transit system as a reporter for The New York Sun, leading the paper’s coverage of the three-day transit strike in 2005. A 2003 graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, he has also written for The New York Times, The New York Observer, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the journal Creative Nonfiction, among other publications.
Jeremy got his start as a reporter working for Tibet Information Network in Kathmandu, Nepal interviewing Tibetans refugees about conditions under Chinese rule. Since then, he’s kept his Tibetan language serviceable by hanging out with Tibetans in the New York area.
Here you can search and read articles Jeremy has written for The New York Times, The New York Sun, New York Press, the Pittsbugh Post-Gazette, Crain’s Workforce Management magazine and other publications.
