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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The People's Parity Project and others are trying to encourage Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont to appoint more judges from non-corporate and non-prosecutorial backgrounds. -
Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is said to have enjoyed his college experience at Yale over a decade ago. One Yale classmate remembers his friend. -
A new postage stamp features longtime Chester, Connecticut resident, and civil rights legend, Constance Baker Motley. -
Clarence B. Jones served as personal counsel to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was also his draft speech writer and personal friend. This hour on Where We Live, we listen back to his interview with Connecticut Public’s own John Henry Smith. -
“We spent well over 10 months. We sought feedback," said Ken Barone, Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Project manager. "And we provided [State Police] with the information that they needed to conduct their own in depth review." -
A trusted advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. believes he loved America more than America loved him. But Clarence B. Jones says King's dedication to love is his legacy. -
For the first time since last September’s primary, Ganim won both the absentee ballot vote and the in-person vote. -
The University of Connecticut men’s basketball team reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 Men’s College Basketball Poll this week. -
Connecticut's Latino leaders will gather this weekend for a summit in Hartford. The goal is to make sure the General Assembly understands and acts upon their concerns. -
First, it was snow. Then, rain. And then, a dam was compromised.
