Jamie Smith joined CBS 3's Eyewitness News team as a general assignment reporter in January, 2004. Smith came to Philadelphia from WICU-TV, the NBC station in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he had been the lead 11 p.m. news reporter and back-up anchor since 2001. Previously, Smith was a reporter for KIEM-TV in Eureka, California. He began his career in broadcasting as a sports reporter for WLNY-TV in New York City in 1997. cbs3