Henrietta J. Burroughs
Henrietta J. Burroughs is the founder of the East Palo Alto Center for Community Media, a nonprofit organization which was established in 2003 to create media outlets in the City of East Palo Alto, that would fill the city’s information void. In January 2006, under her leadership, the EPA Center for Community Media launched East Palo Alto Today, the first continuously published newspaper in East Palo Alto in 20 years.
Burroughs is an award-winning journalist, who started her career in New York City as a newspaper reporter. She later became a television news reporter and worked for several television news shows, including the "Evening News" at WNBC TV and the 51st State at WNET TV, where she later hosted a weekly television show called "Dateline New Jersey." Just before moving to California, she worked for Newsweek’s Broadcasting Unit, where she began producing syndicated stories to air nationally.
In California, she worked as the Editorial Director for KNTV TV in San Jose, where she won an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, a Golden Medallion from The State Bar of California for Distinguished Reporting, and an “Excellence in the Media” award from the San Jose community. She has received other awards for her work in the media including a 2006 Media Recognition Award from Rotary International District 5170.
She currently produces and hosts the bi-weekly television show, 'Talking with Henrietta," which is produced at the Midpeninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto, CA. The show can be seen in the Bay Area on Channel 27 in the following cities: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton and Stanford. The show can also be seen on the Internet. To see the days and times and to get more information about the show, click here.
Her writings have appeared in the New York Post, The New York Times, McCall’s Magazine, Black Enterprise, the San Jose Business Journal, the Palo Alto Weekly, Newark Magazine, Encore, More Journalism Review, The Council on Foreign Relations Handbook and other publications.
Burroughs received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy with Departmental Honors from Howard University, a Masters in International Affairs degree from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Certificate in Broadcast Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.