As managing editor of The Chronicle, Scott Smallwood served as day-to-day supervisor of newsroom, working with editors, reporters, web producers, and designers on both the newspaper and the website. Before taking that job, in 2010, he was managing editor of The Chronicle’s website, and he coordinated enterprise reporting across the newsroom.
Smallwood joined The Chronicle in 2000 as a reporter, covering a range of faculty-related topics, particularly in academic labor issues. In 2005 two packages of stories that he co-wrote — one on plagiarism and one on diploma mills — were finalists for the National Magazine Award in reporting.