Rex Smith retired in 2021 after 26 years with the Times Union, serving 18 of those years as the newspaper’s editor. He grew up in South Dakota's Black Hills but became a New Yorker in 1979.

Rex is an award-winning sports reporter who joined WOWT in December of 2019. He previously worked at WPTA in Fort Wayne, Ind., for more than three years. There, he held the title of Weekend ...