Jeremy Smerd
jsmerd (at) gmail (dot) com
Highlights
National Institute for Health Care Management Journalism Award and $10,000 prize June 2008
The New York Times Foundation Institute for Journalists, Fellow, February 2007
Adjunct Professor of Journalism, City College of New York, Fall 2008
Experience
Health Care Reporter
New York, NY
March 2006 to present
- Cover health care for Workforce Management, a 52,000 print bi-weekly magazine read by business executives of Fortune 500 companies and published by Crain Communications.
- Travled to India and Latin America to report stories on the impact of outsourcing on American workforces.
Adjunct Professor
City College of New York
New York, NY
Fall 2008
- Taught undergraduate journalism class that focused on reporting and writing stories about and for the college community. Some of those stories can be found at the citycollegereporter.wordpress.com, the college’s online student newspaper.
Freelancer/Stringer
New York, NY
January 2003 to present
- Work as a stringer for The New York Times’ metro desk covering breaking news.
- Write freelance stories for The New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Press and others.
Transportation Reporter
New York, NY
October 2004 to February 2006
- Covered the country’s largest public transportation systems and the agencies responsible for running them for the 100,000 circulation daily newspaper.
- Led the paper’s coverage of city’s three-day transit strike in December 2005, the city’s first transit strike in 25 years.
Financial Reporter
New York, NY
December 2003 to October 2004
- Reported for financial news Web site on the $2 trillion hedge fund industry; analyzed the performance of trading strategies, profiled hedge fund managers and covered the debate over regulating hedge funds.
Producer
Sleeping Giant Productions
San Francisco, CA
October 2000 to July 2002
- Reported, shot, wrote and edited video documentaries on various issues including the dotcom boom and bust, the California energy crisis of 2001 and the Afghani community after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Reporter
Katmandu, Nepal
December 1999 to June 2000
- Interviewed Tibetans fleeing Tibet into Nepal for London-based news service also known as TibetInfoNet that attempts to cover current events, trends and policy in Tibet. Based in Nepal, I interviewed newly arrived Tibetans — monks, nuns, students, farmers, businessmen, some of whom were political prisoners – to gather information about the education, health, economic and religious issues affecting Tibetans under Chinese rule.
Education
M.S., Journalism, May 2003, Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
B.A., Religion, May 1997, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Computer Skills
Video editing (Final Cut, Premier)
Audio editing (Pro Tools, Sound Edit)
Web design
Computer Assisted Reporting
Hi Jeremy – I sent you an email about getting permission to reprint one of your articles, but the mailer daemon got it. Actually, I sent you a 2nd email with an article I thought you might find interesting.
Could you please email me at bjsturtevant@aol.com so that I can reply?
Thanks!