of the News of the Worlds Sunday magazine, before being appointed editor of the newspaper in 1987. She managed to increase the circulation of the News of the World by 400,000, but by means which even MacKenzie was reported to have found excessive. The tabloids were then under official pressure for their excesses. "Sales aren't everything, Wendy", proprietor Rupert Murdoch is reported to have told her. She resigned rather than modify her editorial policy. In 1988, Henry was appointed by Robert Maxwell as editor of the Sunday People, where she was able to have more input into the leading articles. Whilst there she became known for publishing controversial pictures, including victims of the Sioux City air crash in July 1989, which apparently led to a first warning about her future from Maxwell. It was for publishing a photograph of an ailing Sammy Davis Jr (showing scars he had from his treatment for throat cancer), and another of seven-year-old Prince William urinating in public, both in the issue of 19 November 1989, for which she was sacked. According to Joe Haines, Maxwell could not remember the reason he had sacked Henry, for both photographs or which one of them. However, Maxwell told Hugo Young, that it was the picture of Davis which had led to Henry's sacking. In 1990, she moved to the United States to become editor of The Globe, remaining at the title until 1993. Although she has been described as the first female Fleet Street editor, she was preceded by Delarivier Manley (1711), Rachel Beer (1891–1904) and Mary Howarth (1903). Later career In the mid-1990s she produced A Current Affair on Fox. She went on to edit the "Spotlight" supplement of the New York Daily News from its launch, and then Successful Slimming before returning to London to launch a British edition. She next worked for Parkhill Publishing alongside Eve Pollard, and spent a year editing Real Homes, during this period circulation increased by 7%. Henry became Press Officer for Battersea Dogs Home in 1997, and was later secretary to several committees at the centre. In 2002, she began working for them as a full-time dog re-socialiser. In 2004, she joined journalism training as a Professor of Anecdotes. References Living people Alliance for Workers' Liberty people Alumni of the University of Manchester British women journalists English magazine editors English newspaper editors English television producers News of the World