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Contact Angelo   One creative mind, one off-center idea, one Pulitzer prize. Angelo Henderson is a writer, speaker, radio host, and media consultant who is ready to share his expertise as a speaker at your next event.
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Branding In Detroit, I’ve watched the newspapers cut deliveries to three days a week and lay off my friends and former colleagues. And across the nation, pink slips are flying and more journalists are unemployed or underemployed. We shouldn’t be surprised. Since 2001, newspapers have lost nearly 10,000 journalists. While Latinos, Asians and Native Americans have made staffing gains in that time, the share of African-Americans has dropped 18.3%. In this decade, minority staffing in television has remained flat and, in radio, has dropped nearly 4% over the decade.
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize   Working as deputy Detroit bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Angelo B. Henderson was honored with the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished feature writing. His dramatic narrative detailed the lives affected by an attempted drugstore robbery that ended in the robber’ s death. The Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award given for journalistic excellence, is presented annually by Columbia University in New York City. He is the 22nd African American to win this award since its inception in 1917. He joins the ranks of literary giants Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and the late Gwendolyn Brooks.
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Biography Pulitzer Prize-winner. News radio host. Freelancer. Media consultant. Former NABJ officer and chapter president. A success in the newsroom and the world outside it. Angelo B. Henderson, a print and broadcast journalist for 24 years, is a former two-term NABJ Parliamentarian and two-term NABJ chapter president. He was the only African-American reporter to win the Pulitzer Prize at The Wall Street Journal, where he wrote exclusively for Page One after working his way from staff writer to senior staff writer to Detroit Deputy Bureau Chief.
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Testimonials

His integrity and dedication to our industry are well known.

 

Merv Aubespin, Past NABJ President

I have known Angelo Henderson since he was a high school student in Louisville, Kentucky who dreamed of a career in journalism. Angelo's growth from high school journalism through college and professional life has been a pleasure to follow. His integrity and dedication to our industry are well known.

He is grounded with a firm understanding of where we, as black journalists, have come from and what we need to do to solidify our role in a rapidly changing work environment.

 

Radio Host

Listen to Angelo every Sunday from 7:00 to 9:00 am for "Kiss Sunday Today—Church on Your Way to Church" on Kiss FM!

 

Angelo hosts Your Voice every Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET. Click here to listen live!