Robert Smith (journalist, born 1940)

●    Suppressed: Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021

In 2002, Smith became a barrister of the Inner Temple in London. He served as Director of Mediation at the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution. He taught a seminar on mediation theory and practice at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Smith currently lives in San Francisco, where he continues to mediate domestic and international disputes, and continues his writing.

●    Alternative Dispute Resolution for Financial Institutions, West Group, 1995.

After leaving the Times, Smith worked as an attorney with Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe in San Francisco from 1976 to 1978. He returned to Washington to serve as Special Assistant to Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti under President Jimmy Carter. He was Chief Spokesperson for the US Department of Justice.

Smith grew up in Boston. He earned a BA at Harvard College, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He graduated from Columbia University with an MA in International Affairs and an MS in Journalism. He served as a First Lieutenant and Infantry platoon leader in the US Army Reserve from 1965 through 1971. In 1972, Smith left the Times to attend Yale Law School.

Smith began his full-time journalism career in 1965 as a correspondent for Time magazine. He became a rewrite man at The New York Times before becoming a correspondent in the Washington Bureau.

Smith covered Washington for The New York Times in the 1960s and 1970s. The New York Times, BBC News, NBC, and other media outlets featured articles about how Smith had the scoop on Watergate two months before journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the story for The Washington Post. The scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Robert Michael Smith (born November 4, 1940) is a mediator, lawyer, author, and former journalist for The New York Times.