Henry Frederick

Biography

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New Smyrna Beach

Short Bio

Henry Frederick, Editor/Publisher of NSBNews.net
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Biography

Henry Frederick is an award-winning journalist who has covered news in
Volusia County since 1995. Among his biggest stories were witnessing and
reporting on the execution of serial killer Aileen Wuornos and covering
the Trull brothers murder trial.

Frederick was a reporter for eight years with the Daytona Beach
News-Journal before serving as a city editor for nearly two years with the
Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette. He was briefly managing editor of the Port
Orange and New Smyrna Beach weekly editions of Hometown News, editor for 7
months of the former daily New Smyrna Beach Observer and was the city
reporter for the Palatka Daily News. Frederick has written literally
thousands of stories for daily newspapers in Florida, New York,
Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Frederick created and launched NSBNEWS.net on April 7, 2008, with
assistance from friend, Peter Mallory.

NSBNEWS.net has grown from a small Web site with a couple hundred hits
daily to a continuously updated media source for Southeast Volusia with
1,200 hits daily and several thousand page views. Frederick has amassed a
small army of volunteer bloggers. He writes most of the Web site's
stories, sells advertising to support the Web site and works tirelessly
every day to ensure round the clock media coverage for greater New Smyrna
Beach.

Frederick and his wife, Sera, are fixtures at New Smyrna Beach City
Commission meetings where they videotape highlights and they have amassed
a video catalogue with more than 300 videos of community events and
breaking news. Frederick was instrumental in organizing three successful
candidate debates. He posted the Top 100 stories of 2008, and recently
established a new investigative series: Show Me The Money."

Frederick's Web site has grown to the point where its Web traffic is
recognized and monitored by Google. NSBNEWS.net also has more than 2,500
e-mail subscribers who receive breaking news alerts.

Here are Frederick's journalism awards:

Taunton (Mass.)Daily Gazette/City Editor/nearly 2 years

* 5-day series with entire newsroom staff, "Safety in our schools." The
series won first place in enterprise reporting/public service in the 2006
New England Press Association contest.

* 3-day investigative series "Pipeline Hell" with reporter on a shady
developer. The reporter won first place in "environmental reporting" in
the 2005 New England Press Association contest.

* The reporter and Frederick shared a third place award in "investigative
journalism" in the 2005 Suburban Newspapers of America contest for small
dailies for the series "Pipeline Hell."

Daytona Beach News-Journal/Staff Writer/8 years

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 2004, 2nd
place/large newspapers, Investigative Reporting, "Silent Cries" (3-day
series on child homicides).Florida

* Society of Newspaper Editors, 2004, honorable mention, Investigative
Division "Silent Cries."Society of Professional Journalists, Florida
Chapter, 2004, breaking news, honorable mention/large newspapers,
"Community mourns death of longtime area educator."

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 2003, 1st
place/large newspapers, Front Page Sports Reporting "Lawsuit monopoly
justifies splitting up NASCAR."

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 2003, 2nd
place/large newspapers, breaking news "The execution of Aileen Wuornos."

* Florida Press Club, 2003, 2nd place, excellence in general news writing,
"Property takeover may change boardwalk," "Unusual cases re-ignite legal
arguments on Miranda rights," and "Word on the street: Few police."

* Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, 2003, 3rd place, sports, "Lawsuit:
monopoly justifies splitting up NASCAR."

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 2002, 3rd
place/large newspapers, breaking news, "Brothers on trial."

* Florida Press Club, 2002, 3rd place, excellence in general news writing,
"Spring Break: Collision Course," "Lawsuit: Monopoly justifies splitting
up NASCAR," and "Behavior nets police chief two-week unpaid suspension."

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 1998, 2nd
place/large newspapers, breaking news "Little boy: He shot and killed my
friend."

* Society of Professional Journalists, Florida Chapter, 2004, honorable
mention/large newspapers, James K. Batten Award for public service
project: "Spring Hill."

The (Nyack, N.Y.) Journal News/Staff Writer/8 years

* New York State Associated Press, 1992, Spot News (honorable mention),
"Two charged in gas station slaying."
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WORKSHOPS:

* Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla. , 2001, two-week national
seminar on "newspaper writing and editing."

* National Press Foundation, Washington D.C., 2001, week-long workshop on
"America's Legal System."

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science/Public Administration, with
concentration in Writing, 1984, Central Connecticut State University, New
Britain, Conn.

1984 President's Citation for "Academic Excellence and Outstanding Service
to the College and Community" as editor-in-chief of college newspaper, The
Central Recorder. After graduation, also published two monthly versions of
independent college newspaper, Campus Review.

History

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