Kerry Smith

Senior Vice President, Editorial Quality, ABC News

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Kerry Smith, a veteran ABC News producer and manager, was named senior vice president for Editorial Quality in May 2003. She reports to David Westin, president, ABC News.

As senior vice president for Editorial Quality, Ms. Smith is responsible for maintaining the journalistic integrity and editorial standards of ABC News. In addition, she serves as a senior advisor to the president for editorial matters.

In April 1999, Ms. Smith was named the senior Washington editor for ABC News. In that position she supervised Washington news coverage and coordinated the bureau’s editorial product for all ABC News programs. In addition she was instrumental in the startup of “Political Points,” the ABCNEWS.com daily webcast on politics produced with The New York Times, and she supervised the project on behalf of ABC News. Ms. Smith was also the executive in charge of “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.”

Previously Ms. Smith was senior producer of the Washington bureau’s Magazine Unit, supervising an investigative staff of producers. During her more than 20-year career as a television news producer and program executive, Ms. Smith has worked for “PrimeTime Live,” “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America” and “Nightline.”

In addition to supervising coverage of breaking news and investigative reports, Ms. Smith has produced a number of documentaries for ABC News. She was the senior editorial producer of ABC’s broadcast on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which won a Peabody Award. She was senior producer of an investigative report on the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill confrontation for the ABC News program “Turning Point,” and served as the producer for the award-winning Ted Koppel Report, “Drugs, Crime and Doing Time.”

Ms. Smith is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF). The IWMF is a non-profit organization founded in 1990 with the mission of strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide. IWMF members, in more than 100 countries, are part of a growing and powerful network of women and men dedicated to supporting women’s full participation in the news media around the world.