Neil Henry (journalist)

Neil Henry is an American journalist and professor who is currently dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He served as interim dean since Orville Schell's departure in 2007, and was appointed permanently in May 2009.^[1]

Before becoming a professor at Berkeley in 1993, Henry was a reporter for The Washington Post.^[2]

He is the author of Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for his White Family,^[3] an autobiographical family history that explores issues of mixed African American and White American heritage.^[4] The book was a finalist for the title of best nonfiction book by the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association in 2001.^[5]

External links

• Neil Henry's Faculty webpage at UC Berkeley J-School

References

1. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/07/state/n180721D37.DTL&type=science
2. ^ http://www.dailycal.org/article/105648/journalism_school_selects_new_dean
3. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/08/EB183663.DTL
4. ^ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june01/pearl_05-22.html
5. ^ http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9239.php

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