I'm Paul Henderson. Not the one that scored that goal in 1972.

I am a writer, an editor, a plate-spinning overthinker with ADHD, a pathological curiosity and an urge to find out stuff and tell people what’s going on and how things work.

I’ve won two dozen provincial and national awards over two decades while on the front lines of community newspaper journalism with a focus on crime and the justice system, local and provincial politics, advocacy journalism and human interest features. I’m a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists and a BC Supreme Court accredited reporter.

My most recent work is working for a tech firm in San Francisco doing a job on contract that none of us likely fathomed would exist as work 20 years ago, namely, training artificial intelligence systems. If you have heard the term AI slop, you have now, and I've been labelled an AI slop expert by the company, which pays me to make large-language model systems act more like humans. When the robots come to turn us all into paperclips, maybe they'll be nice to me?

Before that I worked as an editor in the government of British Columbia’s communications department in Victoria, our office being the last stop before the dissemination of all government news releases.

I also did some technical writing and editing for a local architectural firm helping with marketing and business development, and I do freelance editing for other customers. (Interested? Visit my Editorial Services page.)

For three years I was editor of The Chilliwack Progress, the oldest community newspaper in B.C., a job I was nudged into from being a reporter just three days after Dr. Bonnie Henry declared a public health emergency in British Columbia on March 17, 2020.

From 2017 to 2020 I was a reporter for The Progress. Before that I worked for the Chilliwack Times from 2006 until ownership "merged" the paper with The Progress at the end of 2016.

Prior to my time in Chilliwack I did freelance journalism and worked as an editor at an alternative health magazine in Toronto where we also put on a large annual natural health trade show. I was also a reporter for one year at the little ol’ Grand Forks Gazette in the Boundary area of B.C.

I went to journalism school at Langara College. I graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1994 where I finished an honours B.A. with a major in philosophy.