Henry E. Scott

Henry Scott s a former journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers as varied as the weekly Butner-Creedmoor (NC) News and the daily Charlotte Observer and Hartford Courant. He also has served as a business executive at The Courant and The New York Times, where he served as vice president for new media/new product development. Scott is former president and editorial director of Out, America's quality gay and lesbian magazine, and he launched and served as publisher of Metro New York, a 330,000-circulation free daily in New York City. His current focus is on helping create and sustain hyperlocal news media through his consultancy, Media-Maven LLC.

Scott also is the author of the novels "London Comfort: An American Idol's Dangerous Real World Adventure" and "Lost and Found: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places," and the non-fiction "Shocking True Story: The Rise and Fall of America's Scandalous Scandal Magazine."