Elizabeth Benjamin (born c. 1972[1]) is currently a managing director at Marathon Strategies, a communications and strategy firm in New York,[2] and was[3] a journalist with what was then Time Warner Cable News (TWCN), serving as the editor-in-chief of "State of Politics," a blog covering the politics of the state of New York, and as the host of the daily political news and interview show Capital Tonight.
Prior to this, she wrote a column for the New York Daily News, also covering state and city politics.
In 2013, she married Steven Smith, spokesman for the Albany police department.
Smith, then training for his first-ever triathlon, was directed towards Benjamin, a past Ironman participant who has a tattoo from that event on her leg.
New York's chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, officiated at the ceremony, held in Poughkeepsie.