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Tracy Smith
Correspondent, CBS News Sunday Morning
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Smith has also served as a national correspondent for
Smith joined CBS News in 2000 as a correspondent for The Early Show, where she created "Study Hall," a bi-monthly report on teen issues. She has covered major news stories for The Early Show and The CBS Evening News, including the Sept. 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Minneapolis bridge collapse, the winter Olympics in Torino, Italy and the 2008 campaign for President.
Smith did numerous multi-part series for The Early Show on issues ranging from Megan’s law to human trafficking. She's done Sunday Morning cover stories on genetic testing, moms and work and NASCAR. Celebrities she’s interviewed in-depth include Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Denzel Washington.
Before joining CBS News, Smith worked as an anchor and reporter for Channel One News (1993-2000), a daily newscast that airs in more than 12,000 secondary schools nationwide. She covered a broad range of stories, including the Clinton Administration, the rise of neo-Nazis in Germany, Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in Israel, the civil war in Southern Sudan, the war in Chechnya, the long-ranging effects of Chernobyl and the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda. She hosted a number of live shows while at Channel One, with guests including President Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Prior to that, Smith served as a part-time reporter for KERO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Bakersfield, Calif (1993).
Smith has been recognized many times for her work. She’s received two AWRT Gracie awards: one for her reporting on Hurricane Katrina, and another for a series on a teenager who moved to the US from war-torn Sierra Leone. She also won seven National Educational Media Network Awards, including a Golden Apple for a story on nuclear proliferation, a Golden Hugo from The Chicago International Film Festival for a piece on abusive relationships, and a Gold World Medal from the New York Festivals for a series on heroin abuse.
Smith was born in Wyoming, Ohio. She graduated cum laude from Boston University in 1990 with a bachelor of science degree and from the University of Southern California in 1993 with a master's of arts degree in broadcast journalism. Smith lives in New York City with her husband, John D'Amelio, a producer for Sunday Morning, and their twins, Gia and John Jr.
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