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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Connecticut’s Jewish community is marking the festival of lights two months after an attack on Israel. -
West Hartford is set to be one of the first Connecticut towns to install street-level red light traffic safety cameras. Do they work? Are they fair? One local traffic expert weighs in. -
A Trinity College student is one of three Palestinians that were recently shot in Vermont. -
Los residentes de Puerto Rico han sido ciudadanos estadounidenses por más de un siglo. -
Vernon is dealing with litter and impaired driving brought on by tiny "nip" liquor bottles by trying to win over the minds of "nippers." Thw town is also using a new surcharge on nips to help clean them up. -
Noviembre trae consigo solemnes conmemoraciones en el Día de los Veteranos y el acogedor Día de Acción de Gracias. -
Statehood? Independence? Neither? Congress is considering letting Puerto Rico choose. A Connecticut historian says the U.S. has avoided doing this before and probably will again.
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The government won’t shut down. Well, at least not this year. -
Democrats gained 16 of the top offices in Connecticut's cities and towns this election cycle, while the GOP gained eight. Bilal Sekou, a political scientist, says local issues were the focus. -
Many men with Connecticut ties died when a German rocket bomb sank the HMT Rohna. But the sinking Rohna was largely forgotten. A filmmaker hopes his new movie will do what the military wouldn't: Reveal the truth.
