He is the former CEO of The Texas Tribune and host of the weekly interview program Overheard with Evan Smith.

[1][2][3] Born in New York, Smith has a bachelor's degree in public policy from Hamilton College and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University (which inducted him into its Hall of Achievement in April 2006).

[4][5] Since September 2010, he has hosted Overheard with Evan Smith, a weekly interview program produced by KLRU that airs on PBS stations nationally.

[9][10][11] Smith co-founded the Texas Tribune, an online, nonprofit, non-partisan public media organization, with Austin venture capitalist John Thornton and veteran journalist Ross Ramsey.

[12][13] In January 2022, Smith announced his intentions to step down from his role as CEO by the year's end.