Roger Smith

Roger Smith joined the Center for Health Reporting in 2013 after 35 years as an editor and reporter with the Los Angeles Times. He became national editor of the Times the week after Barak Obama was elected president, and closely supervised coverage of the Affordable Care Act from inception to implementation. For a decade he was editor of the Column One feature on page one, the Times’ premier spot for narrative stories. He also directed coverage of two presidential campaigns, and was principal editor on two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. Before becoming an editor he reported for the paper’s business and metro sections. He joined the Times from Business Week magazine. He is a graduate of the USC School of Journalism.