From 1990 to 2000, Smith wrote the "Inside Silicon Valley" technology column in the
San Francisco Sunday Chronicle. During that time, she was a investigative news reporter for
PC Week, senior editor at
PC/Computing magazine, and later, as of 1994, she was the editor-in-chief of
IDG's
Electronic Entertainment magazine. From 1993 to 1997, she hosted the radio show
On Computers with Gina Smith and Leo Laporte and from 1997 to 2000 she hosted
ABC Radio's
Connected with Gina Smith, a radio call-in show that ran in syndication. In 1995, she co-hosted, with
John Levine, an educational
PBS special, ''The Internet Show: Drivers' Education for the Internet Superhighway''. Also in 1995
ABC News hired Smith as a technology correspondent, where she covered technology news for
ABC News'
Nightline with
Ted Koppel,
ABC World News Tonight with
Peter Jennings, and
Good Morning America. Smith hosted the
ESPN weekly series
Nothing But Net with
Pat O'Brien in 1995 and 1996. She also hosted a daily tech news show on the
Discovery Channel in 1996 and 1997 called
Cyberlife.
Cyberlife was nominated for a
CableACE Award in the Business/Consumer Programming Special or Series category in 1997. In 1999 Smith joined
CNET as anchor of the
News.Com daily news show on
CNBC. In 2010, Smith returned to journalism as editor-in-chief of the online relaunch of
Byte magazine as Byte.com. Since 2011, she has been CEO of aNewDomain Media, which runs several news websites. ==Business ventures==