Broadcasting career

Smith was an entertainment correspondent for the 24-hour news channel Sky News

Sky News

Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...

 covering showbiz, films and personalities for the channel, from 2003 until April 2011.

Previously, he worked for 8 years at the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 and was a reporter and presenter for BBC News

BBC News

BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...

, having worked on Radio 1 Newsbeat, BBC GLR, and Liquid News.

As a studio presenter, he presented programmes such as Sky News at 10, The Live Desk and was an occasional presenter of the media show, SkyNews.com on Sky News.

He is a graduate from the University of Westminster

University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent...

 where he specialised in broadcast journalism.

He now runs his production company although is still available as a freelance

Freelancer

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

presenter.