Diana B. Henriques

Who is Diana B. Henriques?

Diana Blackmon Henriques is an American financial journalist and author working in New York City. Since 1989, she has been a reporter on the staff of The New York Times working on staff until December 2011 and under contract as a contributing writer thereafter.

Henriques was born in Bryan, Texas, and raised primarily in Roanoke, Va., where she was introduced to journalism through the Junior Achievement program at her public high school. Graduating in 1966, she was awarded a scholarship to The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she worked on the campus newspaper, The Hatchet. In September 1969, she graduated with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from what is now the university's Elliott School of International Affairs. In May 2011, Henriques was elected to the George Washington University Board of Trustees.

Soon after her marriage in 1969 to Laurence B. Henriques Jr., she was hired as the editor of The Lawrence Ledger, a small weekly paper covering Lawrence Township, N.J. After working at several local and regional daily newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, Henriques joined Barron's magazine as a staff writer in 1986. In 1989, she was hired by The New York Times.