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About Neil Henry (journalist)
- Neil Henry is an American journalist and professor who is former dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
- He served as interim dean in 2007, and was appointed permanently in May 2009.
- During his deanship Henry accelerated the school's transition to digital skills training in its curriculum with the support of the Ford Foundation, while attracting three $2 million endowed faculty chairs from private donors. Before becoming a professor at Berkeley in 1993, Henry was a reporter for The Washington Post., where he served as a local, national and foreign correspondent based in Africa, and for Newsweek magazine.
- He has been awarded honors from the Associated Press, the Robert F.
- Kennedy Memorial, and the John S.
- and John L.
- Knight Foundation for his reporting and writing. He is the author of "Pearl's Secret", an autobiographical family history that explores issues of mixed African American and White American heritage.
- The book was a finalist for the title of best nonfiction book by the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association in 2001.
- He also is the author of 2007's "American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media," which examines the economic and cultural forces challenging the practice of journalism in the digital era.Since 2012, Henry, a 1977 graduate in politics from Princeton University, and holder of a 1978 Master's Degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, has served as director of the Oral History Center of UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library.
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