Originally posted Monday, November 5, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog

Lynn Smith, an HLN Weekend Express anchor, and her husband Graham Smith had her second child on Friday. Ryder joins his brother, two-year-old Lochlan.

He was born eight pounds and 20.5 inches long.

Smith, 39, joined HLN in 2013.

She had previously been an anchor of NBC’s “Early Today” and MSNBC’s “First Look.”

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