Craig S. Smith (born October 13, 1955, in Spokane, Washington[1]) is an American journalist and former executive of The New York Times.
[2] Until January, 2000, he wrote for The Wall Street Journal, most notably covering the rise of the religious movement Falun Gong in China.
He joined The New York Times as Shanghai bureau chief in 2000 and wrote extensively about the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China.
In 2008, he joined Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li Tzar Kai's financial news venture as executive editor and subsequently became senior vice president of Li's Pacific Century Group.
[6] Smith received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1979 with a joint major in English literature and a master's in Western philosophy.