Conway-Smith spent the last four years in Beijing where she was the founding editor of Asia Weekly, an award-winning independent current affairs magazine, and filed stories for the International... Erin Conway-Smith is a freelance journalist who is based in Johannesburg and travels regularly through sub-Saharan Africa. Conway-Smith spent the last four years in Beijing where she was the founding editor of Asia Weekly, an award-winning independent current affairs magazine, and filed stories for the International Herald Tribune, CBC Radio, the Toronto Globe and Mail and Maclean's magazine, among other media outlets. Conway-Smith was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Canada and studied at the University of Western Ontario. She received a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. more