Graham Smith

Graham Smith is a DC-based Senior Producer on NPR's Investigations team and winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. Smith came to NPR in 2003 to run All Things Considered, which he did for five years. He's since produced and reported from conflict zones and taught radio craft to reporters making the transition to audio storytelling. Smith has recorded athletes skiing at Olympic venues, sought shrimp in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and lost his lunch flying on the U.S. Marines’ controversial Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. He has a deep love for meaningful obituaries.

Smith won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for No Compromise, a podcast investigating an extreme gun-rights faction. He was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist for White Lies, which solved a Civil Rights-era murder and explores its meaning, and produced a duPont Award-winning exposé in 2022 on the misinformation campaign behind plastic recycling. He is winner of the 2024 Investigative Reporting Murrow Award for the podcast Taking Cover, which uncovers a deadly friendly fire incident from early in the Iraq war that the Pentagon lied about for decades.

Smith won the Robert F. Kennedy and Edward R. Murrow awards for an investigation with Youth Radio into harassment at a Navy base and received the George Foster Peabody award for editing a series on teen sex trafficking in Oakland. He also received Murrow awards for his own battlefield reporting from Afghanistan and as part of NPR's team covering the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.

Smith grew up in New England – exploring swamps and mountains, sweating in kitchens, and playing in rock bands. Before NPR, he worked for WBUR Boston, NH Public Radio and Monitor Radio. He raises bees and veggies with his family in D.C. and teaches podcasting and production at George Washington University.