Jay Scott Smith

Journalist. Broadcaster. Storyteller

Philadelphia, PA

Award-Winning broadcaster, reporter, anchor, and multimedia journalist.

Jay Scott Smith

Journalist. Broadcaster. Storyteller

Philadelphia, PA

Award-Winning broadcaster, reporter, anchor, and multimedia journalist.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo gets unexpected guidance from Kevin Durant
With his combination of speed, agility, and power, one player that the “Greek Freak” is often compared to is Kevin Durant. Durant, the reigning NBA Finals MVP and the 2014 League MVP, also spent a majority of his career playing in a small market — spending nearly a decade in Oklahoma City after one season in Seattle.
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Protests continue at Philly Starbucks following arrest of two Black men
Four days after a viral video of two Black men being arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks touched off national outrage – and heavy damage control by the coffee giant – activists once again took over the establishment and angrily made their voices heard with a list of demands. “Enough is enough,” shouted Rev.
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Detroit Tigers' Quintin Berry sudden rise a story of persevereance
DETROIT – His 2012 season started the way it had every season since 2006: in the Minor Leagues, this time in Toledo, the Triple-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. Little did Quintin Berry know in April that three months later, he would become the X-factor for a team that is fighting to win its first World Series in 28 years.
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Is Lansing the interracial love capital of America?
LANSING, Mich. – In America in 2011, the idea of being “biracial’ has taken on a new meaning. The city that may be the best example of this new racial identity is Lansing, which has the highest percentage of blacks who identify with different races. “It is very common to see interracial couples here in Lansing,” said Beth Brokaw, a 28-year-old Lansing native.
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9-year-old’s lemonade stand raises nearly $4,000 for Detroit
DETROIT – Days after his internationally-known lemonade stand closed, 9-year-old Joshua Smith’s idea to help cash-strapped Detroit netted close to $4,000 in sales and donations. After being hailed as a “hero” by the Detroit City Council and commended by Mayor Dave Bing, Smith and his family are grateful for the generosity of others in helping to more than triple his goal.
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Classmate of Romney, Obama recalls both men
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Just hours after President Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage during a nationally televised interview, his chief rival in the race for the White House was answering questions about an incident that occurred while he was in high school 47 years ago. Mitt Romney’s 1965 hair-cutting prank shed light on his upbringing, and the prep school where he spent his formative years.
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Chicago churches unite to honor kids lost to violence
CHICAGO – The 264 names read like the role at a commencement ceremony. Brothers and sisters, cousins and close friends, black, white, and Latino, one by one they were read, except the names were not those of honor students and graduates. They were the names of victims. Since the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year in Chicago, the country’s third-largest city, 264 children age 18 and under have been killed by violence.
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Chicago activists highlight housing segregation in city
CHICAGO – A recent study by the Manhattan Institute examined the racial makeup of American neighborhoods and proclaimed the decline in segregation nationwide. For two housing advocates in Chicago, this study could not have been further from the truth. This came as news to Morgan Davis and Patricia Fron, who each deal with housing segregation issues in Chicago.
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Number of African-American MLB players reaches historic low
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This past Sunday, Major League Baseball celebrated the 65th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of baseball’s color barrier. Robinson’s entry and subsequent Hall-of-Fame career opened the door for scores of legendary African-American baseball stars — but in the last 30 years, the percentage of black players in the league has plummeted.
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For Detroit, 1967 riots continue to cast long shadow
DETROIT – On July 23, 1967, an early-morning police raid of an after-hours club on 12th Street & Clairmount set off what was, at the time, the most destructive American riot of the 20th Century. Today, 45 years later, the 1967 Riots are seen as more than four days of destruction and mayhem; it became the seminal moment of the last half-century for Detroit.
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Olympic Gold medalist Claressa Shields returns to Flint a hero
FLINT, Mich. – Everywhere you look, you see her name and face: on telephone poles, billboards, windows, and newspapers. For the last 10 days, whenever Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa Shields enters a room, she’s greeted like a conquering hero, all the while insisting on being treated just like everyone else.
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Detroit Mayor Bing accepts city’s challenges, dismisses detractors
DETROIT – For Dave Bing, a pro basketball hall of famer and successful business owner, his time as Detroit’s mayor has been as tumultuous as any since the early days of the man whom city hall is named after: Coleman A. Since taking over as mayor in 2009, Bing has dealt with the arduous task of pulling the city out of years of governmental and financial mismanagement, making many unpopular moves in the process.
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Woman who took viral video of McDonald’s worker attacked by angry customer did it to make sure he would be caught by police
The woman behind the first major viral video of 2019, where a McDonald’s employee in St. Petersburg, Fla. delivered a flurry of punches to a violent customer, says that she simply wanted to make sure that the customer was caught by police. “I didn’t want (the video) to be out there, but when I was asking the police if he had been caught, they said that they couldn’t find him,” Brenda Biandudi, the woman who shot the Dec. 31 video, told theGrio.
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Has Steph Curry joined the ranks of fake moon landing conspiracy theorists?
First, it was Kyrie Irving saying with his entire chest that the Earth is flat (it’s round) in 2017 on a podcast. Now we have Golden State Warriors’ superstar Steph Curry saying, apparently, that man did not walk on the moon (they did).
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Atlanta Hawks fans try to troll Kevin Durant with “Draymond Hates You!” chant
On Monday night, the Warriors were in Atlanta to play the Hawks and late in the third quarter, with Golden State leading 92-74, Hawks fans attempted to rattle Durant while he was at the free throw line.
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#HowardMedicineMatters: Protests erupt over new hospital
Besides draining resources, the new hospital would exclude Howard University Hospital physicians, medical students and residents from providing services and receiving training at the new hospital.
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Hi there, my name is Jay Scott Smith. I'm an award-winning veteran broadcaster, journalist, anchor, and writer with more than 20 years of professional broadcasting experience.

An experienced news and sports journalist, he’s covered major events such as the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the Democratic National Convention, the Daytona 500, the NFL Draft, and the World Series.

My career has included stops at the Detroit News, MLive.com, and the Asbury Park Press, NBC News, WHYY, NPR, and KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia, as well as WPHL-TV in Philadelphia. My work has also appeared in Newsweek and Vibe Magazine.

He has won four Edward R. Murrow Awards, along with 3 Pennsylvania Associated Press Awards, along with being honored by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.

He also hosts a podcast called Jay Scott Confidential that features opinions and interviews from some of the industry's biggest names.

Feel free to connect with him with any interview requests or opportunities at JayScottSmith@outlook.com