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<p>America's Newsroom's <a href="/biography/ed-henry">co-anchor</a>, Ed Henry, is a Fox News Channel anchor. After serving as CNN's senior White House reporter and legislative correspondent, he joined the network in June 2011. He has won many media awards, including the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Congress Reporting and the Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential coverage under deadline from the White House Correspondents Association in 2008. He is the <a href="/biography/ed-henry">author</a> of <i>42 Faith</i>, a New York Times best-seller.</p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>Henry was born in the Astoria district of Queens, New York City, New York, on July 20, 1971, to a dairy manager father and a bookkeeper mother. He went to St. Joseph's Grammar School until the family moved to Long Island's Deer Park. Henry subsequently went to nearby West Islip's St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School. He graduated from Siena College in Loudonville, New York, with a bachelor's degree in English. He started his career working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)">Jack Anderson</a>.</p>

<h2>Relationships</h2>

<p>In June of 2010, Ed married Shirley Hung, a CNN senior producer after they got engaged four months earlier. The wedding took place at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The couple threw a party for their guests at Caesars Palace Rao's the day before the wedding ceremony. The cake prepared for the wedding had twenty-two layers of chocolate with whipped cream frosting and weighed seventy pounds. It was a replica of the White House.</p>

<p>Henry's wife works for Ed's network, but that has not caused any issues in their marriage. The couple does not make many appearances together in public because they want to enjoy their privacy. On May 4, 2016, Ed took a temporary leave from broadcasting, according to a Fox spokesman, due to an alleged extramarital affair with a Las Vegas hostess, Natalia Lima. She said she met Henry five years before social media. The scandal quickly died down. Henry returned to Fox three months later in August as the chief national correspondent. Ed currently resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and commutes to Washington, D.C. bureau for his Fox News broadcasting duties.</p>

<h2>Career</h2>

<h2>Start of Journalism Career with CNN</h2>

<p>Henry started his career with the noted columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Anderson_(columnist)">Jack Anderson</a>. In 2003, he started working as a political analyst on local radio shows such as the <em>WMAL Morning News</em> and <em>The Chris Core Show</em>. He soon gained recognition and respect in his journalism field, which led him to cover Capitol Hill for <em>Roll Call</em> for eight years.</p>

<p>In 2005, he served as a moderator for CNN's <em>Inside Politics</em> program, and in 2006, he started covering the White House. CNN gave the position to him after an unusual incident. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak">Robert Novak</a> stormed off the set during an on-air discussion with political <a href="/biography/james-carville">commentator</a> <a href="/biography/james-carville">James Carville</a>. Ed had to continue the show with just <a href="/biography/james-carville">Carville</a> for the remainder of the segment. In 2008, he was granted a senior position. Out of the three reporters at the White House, he was the only leading <a href="/biography/ed-henry">correspondent</a>.</p>

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<h2>Covering <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Obama</a></h2>

<p>Since the beginning of <a href="/biography/barack-obama">President</a> <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Barak Obama</a>'s first term, Henry started working full time as a White House correspondent. He would ask various questions during conferences and press releases, and he had no issues directly addressing the President. Due to his confident approach, Henry soon made a name for himself as a bold, direct, and strict journalist. In one instance, Henry asked the President why he had taken so long to express outrage about AIG publicly, and <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Obama</a> answered, "It took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak." His answer caused the room to erupt in laughter, and Henry later commented, "I was doing my job, and he was doing his."</p>

<p>Ed covered the vacations of President <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Obama</a> in Hawaii along with radio talk show host <a href="/biography/rush-limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh</a> and was present at the location when <a href="/biography/rush-limbaugh">Rush</a> was hospitalized due to chest pain. After taking a red-eye flight to Las Vegas, he found himself at the center of the Court House shooting in 2010, a story which he later covered live for CNN.</p>

<h2>Headed to Fox News</h2>

<p>Henry left CNN to become a chief correspondent at the White House for the Fox News Channel in 2011. Many rumored that Henry's contract was not being renewed at CNN because some of the producers at the network were displeased with his right-leaning views. During his interview with <a href="/biography/don-imus">Don Imus</a>, he said that he would always like to work with the number one in the field he considered Fox News. He said his switch to Fox was welcoming. He made clear that he had no regrets for leaving CNN. In his view, CNN couldn't compete with Fox News. Ed compared the two networks to perennial baseball contenders saying, "I root for the Yankees, so I like to play for a first-place team. Technically, the Yankees are not in the first place right now, and I have to admit, they're a game behind the Red Sox. But there's no doubt about where Fox is".</p>

<p>He again pointed fingers at CNN during the election coverage, accusing Fox of unfairly being attacked by other media outlets just because the network was gaining popularity, while others were making 'rubbish statements.' He rejected the idea that Fox News purposely tried to cater to conservatives to increase profits and viewership, "It's been a crutch for CNN staffers to say that Fox has done well due to the ideology. It's an easy out to say, 'Oh, we're not picking sides, and that's why we don't have an audience."</p>

<p>At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Henry gushed about how much better his new home was, "It is my first convention with Fox, and I am excited; the movie has been great. I feel like I have so much freedom here, it is exciting, and the numbers don't lie. We are no longer competing with other cable networks; we are competing with the big three and beating them." Henry is proud of his broadcasting style since he never hesitates to ask tough questions to reveal the truth, even if he may make the person being interviewed feel uncomfortable. He once called President <a href="/biography/barack-obama">Obama</a> "Rapper-In-Chief," a decision that was heavily criticized by other broadcasters.</p>

<h2>Awards</h2>

<p>In 2005, Ed received the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation. He was awarded for reporting on Congress and his exclusive interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush">Jeb Bush</a> that year. He also won a Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents Association in 2008 for completing his job with outstanding results under pressure and with a tight deadline.</p>

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