Smith is a graduate of the College of San Diego and a resident of Alameda. She spent the previous two years working as a digital producer for the USA TODAY Community's Plains Digital Optimization Crew, collaborating with greater than 30 newsrooms to optimize and create content material, goal audiences and develop engagement. Previous to that she spent practically three years producing and managing the CBS13 and Good Day Sacramento web sites.

In her function with The Chronicle, she's going to assist curate the house web page of our web site and the SF Chronicle app, write and ship breaking information alerts, submit tales to social media and work with the viewers group to construct reader engagement and retention. She's going to work principally as an AM producer, working carefully with the breaking information group to make sure our prime tales attain our largest digital audiences. 

“We stay up for including Elisabeth and her robust work ethic and optimistic perspective to the digital group,” stated deputy director of viewers Mike Massa. “She has a historical past of working carefully with editors and writers to make sure the very best high quality product is delivered to the viewers.”