John Henry Smith
Host, All Things ConsideredJohn Henry Smith is Connecticut Public’s host of All Things Considered, its flagship afternoon news program. He's proud to be a part of the team that won a regional Emmy Award for The Vote: A Connecticut Conversation. In his 21st year as a professional broadcaster, he’s covered both news and sports.
Before coming to Connecticut Public, John Henry served as Sports Director for NBC Connecticut and as a Public Relations Specialist for Baldwin Media in New Britain.
Earlier in his career, John Henry spent a year-and-a-half as a news anchor and reporter for News 12 Networks. While there, he won a Deadline Award for his breaking news coverage of a shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. He’s also worked in various roles across the country, including as a morning show reporter and anchor for nationally broadcast Al Jazeera America in New York City, as a sports reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area for Comcast Sports Net Bay Area, and as a sports anchor Raleigh, Miami, and New Orleans.
John is a 1990 graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. He worked as a Financial Analyst in the banking industry before getting a M.B.A. from the University of Rochester (New York) and going to work for Eli Lilly and Company. He also earned his masters degree from Syracuse University in 1999 in Broadcast Journalism and TV, Radio, and Film.
John was born in San Francisco, CA and raised in Detroit, Mich. He and his wife, Belinda, have a daughter, Isabella.
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CT is debating a bill that would give the incarcerated more chances to get their sentences reduced. One advocate says it's about fairness & money. What do victims say? -
March 2020 brought the first confirmed case of COVID-19 to Connecticut. What followed was a crisis that would soon overwhelm hospitals, shutter businesses and alter daily life in ways few could have imagined. -
Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act, its protections are under threat. Connecticut Public's Khalilah Brown-Dean breaks down its impact, challenges and what’s at stake. -
An anti-death penalty activist hopes Connecicut will stop companies here from profiting from executions elsewhere. He makes the case for why. -
A Connecticut community has taken another step toward reckoning with its past history of slavery. For the first time ever, the town has named a street after a person who was enslaved there and walked that path each day. -
AI legislation did not make it through in the last legislative session. State Sen. James Maroney tells you why he thinks things will be different this time around. -
Enfield Republicans say no one wanted to join the town's DEI committee. Enfield Democrats say the GOP-dominated town council never supported it. -
En la inauguración de Donald Trump como 47.º presidente de Estados Unidos, el multimillonario tecnológico Elon Musk levantó dos veces el brazo derecho en un gesto que muchos interpretaron como un saludo nazi. Musk desestimó las críticas como una hipérbole “gastada”. Jason Stanley, profesor de filosofía de Yale, dijo que cualquier parecido con un saludo nazi por parte de Musk no era accidental. -
The author of a new book on fascism talks about why he believes Elon Musk made his controversial salute at Donald Trump's inauguration, and wheter fascism is gaining ground here and abroad.
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Officials from Google and Charter Oak State College are launching the free Connecticut Online AI Academy. Connecticut State Sen. James Maroney says AI skills will be important to have.