Editing Shepard Smith (section)

==Early life and education==
Smith was born in [[Holly Springs, Mississippi]], the son of Dora Ellen Anderson, an English teacher, and David Shepard Smith Sr., a [[cotton industry|cotton merchant]].<ref name="MT"/> He attended [[Marshall Academy]] in Holly Springs.<ref name="MT"/> After high school, his parents separated and he moved to Florida with his mother.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/28/style/news-reports-for-ultra-short-attentions.html |title=News Reports For Ultra-Short Attentions |work=[[The New York Times]] |first=Warren |last=St. John |date=March 28, 2004 |access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref> He studied journalism at the [[University of Mississippi]], where he left two credits shy of a degree to take a reporter job in [[Panama City, Florida]].<ref name="ppl030428">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139878,00.html |title=Cable King |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |first=Jason |last=Lynch |volume=59 |issue=16 |date=April 28, 2003 |access-date=July 22, 2009 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043803/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20139878,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Smith delivered the university's 155th [[commencement address]] on May 10, 2008.<ref name="olemiss580">{{cite news |url=http://news.olemiss.edu/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=580 |title=Fox News Anchor Shepard Smith to Deliver Commencement Address May 10 |work=University of Mississippi Newsdesk |first=Mitchell |last=Diggs |date=May 1, 2008 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5XkJskU6z?url=http://news.olemiss.edu/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=580 |archive-date=May 11, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>