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Ed Henry

Ed Henry joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in June 2011 as chief White House correspondent.

Prior to joining FNC, Henry was the senior White House correspondent for CNN. He started there as a congressional correspondent in 2004 and then began covering the Bush administration in 2006, where he received praise for his reporting on the administration's assertions regarding senior Iranian officials sending improvised explosive devices to Iraq. He subsequently won the White House Correspondents Association's Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage under deadline in 2008.

Most recently, Henry interviewed Israeli President Shimon Peres in 2013 about Iran’s nuclear program. He also played an integral role during FNC’s coverage of the 2012 presidential election.

Henry worked as a print journalist at Roll Call for eight years before CNN. At Roll Call he was a Senate correspondent and later a senior editor while also working as the chief political analyst for WMAL-AM (ABC) and as a contributing editor at Washingtonian magazine. Before that, he was a political analyst at C-SPAN and WUSA-TV (CBS).

The recipient of numerous journalism honors including the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, Henry started his career working as an investigative reporter alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Anderson. Henry graduated from Sienna College with a bachelor's degree in English and currently lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.