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'''Joan Alison Smith''' (born 27 August 1953) is an English [[journalist]], [[novelist]], who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of [[International PEN]] and was the Executive Director of [[Hacked Off]].

==Life and work==
Smith was born 27 August 1953 in [[London]], the daughter of Alan Smith, a park superintendent, and Ann Anita Smith (''née'' Coltman). She attended the Girls’ Grammar School in [[Stevenage]] and [[The Costello School|Basingstoke High School for Girls]] before reading [[Latin]] at the [[University of Reading]] in the early 1970s.<ref name="irisonline.org.uk">((cite web|last=Kirby|first=Graham|url=http://irisonline.org.uk/index.php/interviews/43-civitas-smith-iris-meets-joan-smith|title=Civitas: Iris Meets Joan Smith|work=Iris|issue=3|date=Autumn 2011|access-date=16 January 2017))</ref><ref name=":0">((Cite web|title=Smith, Joan Alison, (born 27 Aug. 1953), journalist and novelist|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-278455|access-date=2021-08-28|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2014|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U278455|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4))</ref>

After a spell as a journalist in local radio in [[Manchester]], she joined the staff of ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' in 1979 and stayed at the newspaper until 1984, although Smith still contributes book reviews, usually on crime fiction, to the publication. She has had a regular column in ''[[The Guardian]]'''s Weekend supplement, also [[freelancing]] for the newspaper and has contributed to ''[[The Independent]]'', ''The Independent on Sunday'', and the ''[[New Statesman]]''.

In her non-fiction Smith displays a commitment to [[atheism]], [[feminism]] (''Misogynies: Reflections on Myths and Malice'', 1989) and [[British republican movement|republicanism]]<ref>"I've lost count of the times I've been asked to provide 'a republican voice' by broadcasters, which is a very welcome change." ((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-has-been-a-good-week-to-be-a-republican-8734965.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/this-has-been-a-good-week-to-be-a-republican-8734965.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=This has been a good week to be a republican|work=The Independent|date=27 July 2013|access-date=16 January 2017))</ref> (''Down with the Royals'', 2015).<ref>((cite news|last=East|first=Ben|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/05/provocations-down-with-royals-immigrants-women-need-quotas-review|title=Down With the Royals; What Have the Immigrants Ever Done For Us?; Why Women Need Quotas – review|work=The Observer|date=5 April 2015|access-date=30 August 2017))</ref> She is scornful of [[popular culture]] and once gave away her [[television]] set to her ex-husband, although she acquired a new set almost a decade later.

On 15 September 2010, Smith, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ''The Guardian'', stating their opposition to [[Pope Benedict XVI]]'s state visit to the UK.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion|title=Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion|work=The Guardian|access-date=16 September 2010|location=London|date=15 September 2010))</ref>

In November 2011, she gave evidence to the [[Leveson Inquiry]] into press and media standards following the telephone hacking practised by the ''[[News of the World]]''. She testified that she considered celebrities thought they could control press content if they put themselves into the public domain when, in reality the opposite was more likely.

Although Smith was opposed to the [[2003 Invasion of Iraq]], disputing the false claims about the [[Saddam Hussein]] regime's possession of [[Weapon of mass destruction]], she took a different view during the [[Syrian civil war]]. As a consequence of the [[Refugees of the Syrian civil war|Syrian refugee crisis]],<ref>((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/children-pay-for-our-failure-over-syria-8783597.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/children-pay-for-our-failure-over-syria-8783597.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Children pay for our failure over Syria|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=25 August 2013))</ref> and the [[2013 Ghouta attacks]] using chemical weapons, she called for military intervention.<ref>((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/mps-are-scarred-by-the-war-in-iraq-8792882.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/mps-are-scarred-by-the-war-in-iraq-8792882.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=MPs are scarred by the war in Iraq|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=1 September 2013))</ref>

In 2013, the then [[Mayor of London]], [[Boris Johnson]] appointed Smith as a co-chair of the city's Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Board and she continued the role under his successor [[Sadiq Khan]].<ref>((cite news| last=Brooks| first= Libby| title= London mayor’s office denies feminist activist’s claims over sacking| url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/aug/19/london-mayors-office-denies-feminist-activists-claims-over-sacking | date=19 August 2021| work= [[The Guardian]]| accessdate= 28 December 2023 ))</ref> In 2021, ''[[The Times]]'' reported on Smith's claim that she had been sacked from the position because of her views on women's rights to single-sex rape and domestic abuse refuges and on reform of the Metropolitan Police and its “endemic misogyny” in the wake of the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.<ref>((cite news| first= Fiona| last= Hamilton| title= Campaigner Joan Smith ‘sacked’ over concerns about trans women using refuges| url= https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/campaigner-joan-smith-sacked-over-concerns-about-trans-women-using-refuges-2czj9tqs8 | work= [[The Times]]| date= 19 August 2021| archive-url= https://archive.today/20210819091812/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/campaigner-joan-smith-sacked-over-concerns-about-trans-women-using-refuges-2czj9tqs8| archive-date= 19 August 2021| accessdate= 18 December 2023 ))</ref> A City Hall spokesperson said that Smith's post had been discontinued following a systemic review of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)'s partnership boards including the VAWG board, adding that, "Joan Smith's expertise and insights on the VAWG board have been valuable and we are grateful for her time and service".<ref>((cite web| title= Joan Smith: Women's activist 'lost job over transgender views'| url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58273252 | date= 19 August 2021| website= [[BBC News Online]]| accessdate= 28 December 2023 ))</ref>

Outside the UK, Smith is probably best known for the Loretta Lawson series of crime novels which were published between 1987 and 1995. ''What Will Survive'' (2007) is a novel set in Lebanon in 1997 concerning a journalist's investigation into the death of a model and anti-landmine campaigner.

She is a keen supporter of [[Classics]] in state schools, describing the 1997–2010 [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] government's failure to act on the matter as "hardly their finest hour"<ref name="irisonline.org.uk"/> and is a patron of [[The Iris Project]]. Smith is a supporter of the pressure group [[Republic (political organisation)|Republic]] and a Patron of [[Humanists UK]].<ref name=BHAbio>((cite web|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/joan-smith/|title=Joan Smith|work=British Humanist Association|access-date=5 September 2016))</ref> In 2015, she was elected chair of Labour Humanists, a group promoting [[secularism|secularist policies]] and humanist values within the Labour party.<ref name=BHAbio/> She is an honorary associate of the [[National Secular Society]].<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.secularism.org.uk/honoraryassociates.html|title=National Secular Society Honorary Associates)) National Secular Society. Retrieved 27 July 2019</ref>

Joan Smith was appointed the Executive Director of [[Hacked Off]] in late May 2014 in succession to [[Brian Cathcart]].<ref>((cite news|last=Burrell|first=Ian|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/joan-smith-becomes-president-of-press-reform-campaign-hacked-off-9454871.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220609/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/joan-smith-becomes-president-of-press-reform-campaign-hacked-off-9454871.html |archive-date=9 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Joan Smith becomes president of press reform campaign Hacked Off|work=The Independent|date=29 May 2014))</ref> Smith assumed the position in June,<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/journalist-and-hacking-victim-joan-smith-take-over-leadership-hacked|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140529191526/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/journalist-and-hacking-victim-joan-smith-take-over-leadership-hacked|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2014|title=Journalist and hacking victim Joan Smith to take over leadership of Hacked Off|work=Press Gazette|date=29 May 2014))</ref> but stood down in late June 2015 to return to her writing career full-time.<ref>((cite news|url=http://hackinginquiry.org/mediareleases/joan-smith-steps-down-to-concentrate-on-writing-career/|title=Joan Smith Steps Down to Concentrate on Writing Career|publisher=Hacked Off|date=25 June 2015|access-date=14 February 2016))</ref>

==Personal life==
Smith was married to journalist [[Francis Wheen]] between 1985 and 1993.<ref name=":0" />

After the end of her marriage, Smith started a relationship with [[Denis MacShane]], a British Labour Party politician at the time. On 25 May 2009, during the [[United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal|expenses scandal of 2009]] Smith wrote an article for ''[[The Guardian]]'' titled "I am sick of my country and this hysteria over MPs"<ref>((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/may/25/mps-expenses-democracy|title=I am sick of my country and this hysteria over MPs|work=The Guardian|date=25 May 2009))</ref> objecting to the furore over MPs' expenses which she cited as an example of bullying in public life, stating that her (then) partner was an (unnamed) MP.

The couple subsequently split up in 2010 after seven years together; MacShane was subsequently sentenced to six months of imprisonment for submitting false invoices.<ref>((cite news|last=Frith|first=Maxine|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/that-ol-macshane-magic-8293826.html|title=That ol' MacShane magic |work=Evening Standard|location=London|date=7 November 2012 |access-date=10 November 2012))</ref><ref name=BBC25492017>((cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25492017|title=MacShane jailed for expenses fraud|work=BBC News|date=23 December 2013|access-date=23 December 2013))</ref><ref name=sentence-remarks>((cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-v-macshane-sentence-remarks.pdf |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140423220448/http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/r-v-macshane-sentence-remarks.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 April 2014 |title=The Queen -v- Denis MacShane |publisher=Judiciary of England and Wales |date=23 December 2013 |access-date=23 December 2013 ))</ref>

In 2003 she was offered the [[Order of the British Empire|MBE]] for her services to PEN,<ref>((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/i-dont-do-retiring-and-deferential-559559.html|title=I don't do retiring and deferential|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=11 April 2004))((dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic))((cbignore|bot=medic))</ref> but refused the award.<ref>((cite news|last=Smith|first=Joan|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-rushdies-gong-almost-made-me-ask-for-my-mbe-back-454416.html|title=Rushdie's gong almost made me ask for my MBE back|work=The Independent on Sunday|date=24 June 2007))((dead link|date=August 2021|bot=medic))((cbignore|bot=medic))</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Non-fiction===
*((cite book | title = Clouds of Deceit: Deadly Legacy of Britain's Bomb Tests | isbn = 0-571-13628-1 | year = 1985 | publisher = Faber))
*((cite book | title = Misogynies: Reflections on Myths and Malice | isbn = 0-571-15451-4 | year = 1989 | publisher = Faber))
*((cite book | title = Hungry for You: From Cannibalism to Seduction - A Book of Food | isbn = 0-7011-6217-1 | year = 1996 | publisher = Chatto & Windus))
*((cite book | title = Different for Girls: How Culture Creates Women | isbn = 0-09-959411-0 | year = 1998 | publisher = Vintage))
*((cite book | title = Moralities: How to End the Abuse of Money and Power in the 21st Century  | isbn = 0-7139-9409-6 | year = 2001 | publisher = Allen Lane))
*((cite book | title = Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men into Terrorists  | isbn = 978-1787476042 | year = 2019 | publisher = riverrun))

===Loretta Lawson novels===
*((cite book | title = [[A Masculine Ending]]  | isbn = 0-571-14751-8 | year = 1987 | publisher = Faber))
*((cite book | title = Why Aren't They Screaming? | isbn = 0-571-15187-6 | year = 1988 | publisher = Faber))
*((cite book | title = Don't Leave ME This Way  | isbn = 0-571-14102-1 | year = 1990 | publisher = Faber))
*((cite book | title = What Men Say | isbn = 0-7011-5793-3 | year = 1993 | publisher = Chatto & Windus))
*((cite book | title = Full Stop | isbn = 0-7011-6000-4 | year = 1995 | publisher = Chatto and Windus))

===Novel===
*((cite book | title = What Will Survive | isbn = 978-1-905147-56-4 | year = 2007 | publisher = Arcadia Books))

===Editor===
*((cite book | title = Femmes De Siècle | isbn = 0-7011-3984-6 | year = 1992 | publisher = Chatto and Windus))

==See also==
* [[List of newspaper columnists]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
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*[http://www.librarything.com/author/smithjoan LibraryThing author profile]
*[https://twitter.com/polblonde Joan Smith on Twitter]

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