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U.S. News Editor Spent Week on Campus

Tim Smart

Tim Smart, the deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, was this fall's Business Writer in Residence. Smart spent a week on campus in October speaking to business and journalism classes, holding office hours and having other opportunities to meet one-on-one with students.

Smart has had a long career as both an editor and reporter covering many major national and international business issues for a number of top publications. Currently, Smart helps edit the magazine's personal finance and business coverage.

Smart joined U.S. News in 1999 after two years as a senior writer in the business section of the Washington Post, where he covered corporate issues, management, economics and business strategy and the defense industry.

Prior to the Post, Smart spent 10 years at Business Week covering a variety of beats in Washington, D.C., including business regulation and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Smart related to students his experiences covering top stories over the years, including: GE's legendary former CEO, Jack Welch; the junk-bond scandal involving Michael Milken; the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; the space shuttle Challenger tragedy; and the stock market boom of the late 1990s.

Smart said the chance to take a break from his usual journalism role and share his experiences with business and journalism students was worthwhile.

Each semester a business writer of national prominence is brought to campus. Previous business writers in residence have included Allan Sloan, now with Newsweek, Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and Stuart Elliott of the New York Times.

The Business Writer in Residence program is sponsored by the School of Business, School of Journalism and Mass Communication and UW-Madison's office of University Communications, with support from the UW Foundation.