Sarah Smith is Business Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Prior to this she was Washington Correspondent until the summer of 2011 and before that she was presenter of More4 News from its launch in 2005. She posts regularly on the World News Blog. Over the last few years she has covered stories ranging from the election of President Obama to the Haiti earthquake.
Reporting from all over the US she has brought us stories on American army drones, the ongoing threat of home grown domestic terrorism, the campaign to legalise cannabis in California and the rise of the Tea Party movement.
Millionaire migrants are increasingly investing in the UK, from buying penthouses to building businesses, showing another side to immigration.
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As Channel 4 News focuses on a week of reports on immigration, MPs debate the impact of restrictions being lifted on Bulgarians and Romanians at the end of 2013 - triggering a 100,000-strong petition.
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After former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby agrees to give up his knighthood and part of his pension, pressure is mounting on others in charge when the bank collapsed to follow suit.
Former HBOS chief executive Sir James Crosby says he will ask for his knighthood to be removed and will forego 30 per cent of his pension after last week's report into the bank's collapse.
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MPs investigating a secret list of blacklisted building workers hear from one of the bosses of construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine that the firm was involved in the operation. Sarah Smith reports.
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Goldman Sachs has decided to push ahead with bonus payouts to its investment bankers instead of deferring payments to April 6, meaning they will pay the 50p top rate of income tax after all.
#Shard. I've been to the top and the view is amazing. Does it matter who owns it? My report on Qatari takeover of London on #C4news tonight
— sarahsmithC4 (@sarahsmithC4) 11 January 2013
As the Shard's viewing platform prepares to open to the public, Sarah Smith looks at Qatar's growing presence in London's property market and asks: why is the Shard there?
In austerity Britain one industry is thriving. The payday loans business has increased four fold this year, while more of their customers are struggling to pay back those loans.
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Sarah Smith interviews Terry Waite about why he went back to Beirut twenty five years after he was taken hostage there.
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Nearly 200 countries agree to extend Kyoto Protocol that limits the greenhouse gas output of some rich countries after hard-fought sessions and despite objections from Russia.
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If the UK left the EU, it could choose whether or not to retain laws like the working time directive but not the human rights act, which has nothing to do with the EU.
A Channel 4 News investigation reveals one of Britain's largest internet dating firms hired staff to trick customers into handing over more money - abusing their personal details in the process.
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Channel 4 News talks to Queen guitarist Brian May, part of the Team Badger campaign group, and to Environment Secretary Owen Paterson.
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If George Entwistle's select committee appearance shed light on anything, it was the convoluted layers of BBC management and blurred lines of editorial responsibility.
As the BBC launch an inquiry into their cultural practices in previous decades Business Correspondent Sarah Smith has been looking at her own experience there in the 1990s in a new light.
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The proposed mega merger between British weapons manufacturer BAE and the European aviation giant EADS moves closer.
The verdict from pretty much everyone who has ever come across Antony Jenkins is that he is a "nice guy". Not usually the kind of faint praise that marks you out as a potential CEO.
Standard Chartered agrees to pay $340m to settle allegations that it hid transactions with Iran from regulators. But did the bank get off lightly? Analysis from Business Correspondent Sarah Smith.
A leading stockbroker tells Channel 4 News Standard Chartered's share price "could take years to recover" from claims the bank helped launder money for the Iranian government.
