Rex Smith — Editor of Albany Times Union at Hearst

Mr. Rex Smith has been Editor of Albany Times Union at The Hearst Corporation since July 2002. Mr. Smith has spent over two decades in newspaper reporting and editing, including 15 in New York State's Capital Region. Since 1991, he served as Editor of The Record in Troy, N.Y., before joining the Times Union in 1995 as Managing Editor/news. He has been a key player on the team that helped the Times Union win recognition as the best newspaper in its circulation class in New York State. Mr. Smith had been the paper's managing editor/news. He has spent 11 years in journalism in key editing roles with Capital Region newspapers, but his introduction to the area came in 1987 when he was named Albany bureau chief and national correspondent for Newsday, the Long Island newspaper he joined as a reporter in 1980. He began his newspaper career in 1974 as Managing Editor of the Rensselaer Republican in Rensselaer, Ind., then served as a legislative aide and press secretary to U.S. Rep. Floyd Fithian, D-Ind., from 1975 to 1979. Mr. Smith served as President of the New York State Associated Press Association, was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2001 and 2002, and is a host of The Media Project,. He holds a bachelor of arts, cum laude, in American studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and a master of science from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. .