# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-smith-q3498654
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:10:58.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-smith-q3498654"
name: "Stephen Smith"
slug: "stephen-smith-q3498654"
description: "Stephen William Smith is an American biographer, editor, journalist, and writer. He is a former editor of the French daily newspaper Libération and the former deputy editor of the foreign desk at Le Monde. For many years he worked as a traveling correspondent for Radio France International and Reuters News Agency in West and Central Africa."
tagline: "American/French professor of African Studies, Writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.99
  momentum:             3.26642783530451
  historical:           5.485602666666667
  currentAttention:     10.31894934333959
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Smith_(Journalist)"
    title: "Stephen Smith (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ستيفن سميث (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ستيفن سميث (صحفى من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Smith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Smith_(journalist)"
    title: "Stephen Smith (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Smith"
    title: "Stephen Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3498654"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump