Sarah Smith

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Sarah Smith is a Scottish television reporter and news anchor, currently the Channel 4 Washington correspondent. She was previously the first anchor on More4 News on Channel 4's digital television sister channel More4.

Smith has covered stories ranging from the United States presidential elections and the Madrid train bombings (for which Channel 4 News won an International Emmy in 2004), to the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith and an exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer.

She came to Channel 4 from 5 News where she was reporter for two years. Previously she had worked as a producer for the BBC on programmes as diverse as Newsnight, Public Eye and Rough Guides.

Smith began her journalistic career in 1989 as a graduate trainee with BBC Scotland. She spent a year living and working in Belfast for BBC Northern Ireland, during which time she was held at gunpoint by the Ulster Freedom Fighters in the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) West Belfast headquarters.

In 1991, Smith moved to London as an assistant producer with BBC Youth Programmes, working on Rough Guide, Rapido and Reportage. Two years later she moved to news and current affairs, first as assistant producer with the Public Eye and Here & Now programmes, joining Newsnight as a producer in 1994.

She is the eldest daughter of the late Labour Party leader John Smith, and of Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Gilmorehill. Her mother's status as Baroness affords her the right to use "the Honourable" before her forename. The John Smith Memorial Trust, on whose Advisory Council she sits, lists her as "The Hon. Sarah Smith".

Smith married Simon Conway, an author and co-chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition, on the island of Iona, where her father is buried, on the 22 September 2007.