Derrick Henry is a senior producer who focuses on hybrid journalism at The New York Times. He covers breaking news for the Continuous News Desk and also produces news and features for the Web site. He recently completed a reporting project about foreclosures in the New York region and "The Winemakers," a five-part series about winemakers in the New York region.
He also has taught at The New York Times Student Journalism Institute in Miami and in Tucson, Ariz.
Henry is also a Chips Quinn scholar and a McNair scholar. Before joining The Times, he was the Long Island Internet News Manager for Newsday.com in Melville, N.Y., where he covered breaking local news for the Web site and managed the home page.
He also previously worked at The Associated Press as an online editor for national and international news in New York City, where he helped direct and write breaking news and multimedia coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the ensuing military activities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Henry also was a print and broadcast writer in Trenton, N.J., also for The Associated Press. He graduated from New Mexico State University in 1999. He is also a freelance photographer and recently completed an audio book project as the narrator of "Code Talker," a novel about the Navajo code talkers in World War II. |
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