Jennifer Smart

Jennifer Smart

Jennifer Smart

Video Editor, Documentaries

Jennifer Smart is a video editor and motion graphics animator for the Scripps News Documentaries team. Prior to joining Scripps in 2018, she was a junior editor in magazine video at National Geographic, specializing in animated explainers and motion graphics. She got her Bachelor of Arts in cinema and media studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Recent Work
A screenshot from "Animal Crossing"

Political Outreach Enters The World Of 'Animal Crossing'

The Data That Shows We Still Don't 'Say Her Name'

The Data That Shows We Still Don't 'Say Her Name'

A virtual airplane in flight

AI Tech Changes How We See The World In 'Microsoft Flight Simulator'

Dungeons & Dragons has a reckoning on race

Rethinking How 'Dungeons & Dragons' Handles Race

A video showing the explosion was filmed from just over a kilometre away.

What Visual Evidence Tells Us About What Caused The Beirut Explosion

Early Release: From Prison To A Pandemic

Early Release: From Prison To A Pandemic

Newsy counted more than 50 uses of tear gas in 14 hours of livestream footage at Portland's protests.

Tear Gas Use Was Limited In Portland. Then Federal Agents Showed Up

There have been at least 100 police attack incidents involving the press.

Breaking Down How Police Have Targeted Press During Protests

A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons

How 'Animal Crossing' Became A Quarantine Cultural Phenomenon

An image of European nations connected to the far right network traveling to Greece

How One Greek Island Reveals Europe's Far-Right Nationalist Network

Here's How To Track The World When It Grinds To a Halt

Here's How To Track The World When It Grinds To a Halt

Denver's 1918 'Double Hump' Shows Danger Of Ending Quarantine Too Soon

Denver's 1918 'Double Hump' Shows Danger Of Ending Quarantine Too Soon

While US Expands Unemployment, Europe Holds Jobs In Place. Here's How.

While US Expands Unemployment, Europe Holds Jobs In Place. Here's How.

Breaking Down The Disinformation Ecosystem Around Coronavirus

Breaking Down The Disinformation Ecosystem Around Coronavirus

A Pandemic And A Parade: What 1918 Tells Us About Flattening The Curve

A Pandemic And A Parade: What 1918 Tells Us About Flattening The Curve

How 'Social Distancing' Can Slow Coronavirus

How 'Social Distancing' Can Slow Coronavirus

In this frame grab from video, Russian, Syrian and others gather next to a stuck American military convoy.

How A Shootout In Syria Shows A Precarious Position For US Troops

Catfish Kingdom tells the story of how Ed Scott Jr. became a legend of the Mississippi Delta.

Catfish Kingdom

Iran's record of asymmetrical warfare could inform what comes next in its tensions with the U.S.

Iran Could Use Its Influence, Not Rockets, To Move Against U.S.

A Shot From Police Killed A Protester In Colombia. Here's How We Know.

A Shot From Police Killed A Protester In Colombia. Here's How We Know.

How The Small Donor Boom Drives Millions To Credit Card Processors

How The Small Donor Boom Drives Millions To Credit Card Processors

Thousands of messages and usernames from the Iron March forum leaked online.

We Found More Active Duty Military In Leaked Neo-Nazi Forum

Tear gas canisters fired directly at protestors have resulted in casualties

'Non-Lethal' Crackdown On Protests Turns Deadly In Iraq

Open-source evidence places a Turkish-backed rebel group at the site of an extrajudicial killing in Syria.

Video Evidence Sheds Light On Executions Near Turkey-Syria Border

US map of schools and oil/gas wells

245,000 Kids Attend School Near Oil And Gas Production Across U.S.

Ghost forest near the Blackwater National Refuge

Ghost Forest: Dying trees show climate change's advance

An image of the Al Khamis market in Yemen before it was bombed by the Saudi-led coalition.

Saudi Arabia's Air Strikes Are Killing Civilians With U.S. Weapons

'It's In Our Blood' — 1 Family's Story Living In An Oil/Gas Risk Zone

1.4 Million Live In High-Risk Zones Near Oil And Gas Production

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke speaks to voters in Iowa.

Not Every Vote For President Counts The Same. Should That Change?