American journalist
Rafael Suarez, Jr.
(born March 5, 1957), known as
Ray Suarez
, is an American broadcast journalist and author. He is currently a visiting professor at
NYU Shanghai
and was previously the John J. McCloy Visiting professor of American Studies at Amherst College. Currently Suarez hosts a radio program and several podcast series:
World Affairs
for KQED-FM,
Going for Broke
for the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and "The Things I Thought About When My Body Was Trying to Kill Me" on cancer and recovery. His next book, on modern American immigration, will be published by Little, Brown. He was the host of
Inside Story
on
Al Jazeera America
Story, a daily news program on Al Jazeera America, until that network ceased operation in 2016. Suarez joined the
PBS NewsHour
in 1999 and was a senior
correspondent
for the evening
news
program on the
PBS
television network
until 2013. He is also host of the international news and analysis public radio program
America Abroad
from
Public Radio International
. He was the host of the
National Public Radio
program
Talk of the Nation
from 1993 to 1999. In his more than 40-year career in the news business, he has also worked as a radio reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for
CNN
, and as a reporter for the NBC-owned station
WMAQ-TV
in
Chicago
. He is currently one of the US correspondents for
Euronews
.
Personal life
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Born and raised in Brooklyn by Puerto Rican parents,
[1]
[2]
Suarez attended public schools in the borough from kindergarten through 12th grade, graduating in 1974 from
John Dewey High School
. In 1975, he earned the rank of
Eagle Scout
in the
Brooklyn Council
. In 2009, Suarez was awarded the
Distinguished Eagle Scout Award
by the
NCAC
.
[3]
[4]
He earned a
BA
in African History from
New York University
and an
MA
in the
Social Sciences
from the
University of Chicago
.
[5]
He lives in
Washington, D.C.
, with his wife and three children, Rafael, Eva, and Isabel. Suarez is active locally and nationally in the
Episcopal Church
.
[6]
[7]
Career and publications
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Suarez began working at the campus radio station of New York University upon enrolling there as a student in 1974 and eventually became the station's news director. He subsequently moved to the university's newspaper.
[8]
He later worked as a
freelance
reporter in
London
and
Rome
, and in 1981 his coverage of the
attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
led to his being hired by
CBS Radio
.
[8]
He was, in turn, hired by
ABC
and then
CNN
.
[8]
He became a regular correspondent for the
PBS NewsHour
on October 4, 1999.
[9]
Between 2009 and 2013, he was one of the program's rotating group of
anchors
.
[10]
He is the author of three books. The most recent is
Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation
published by Penguin/Celebra in 2013. He is also the author of the 1999 book
The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999
,
[11]
[12]
a social commentary on the causes of the destitution found in the inner city. In 2006, he authored
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America
,
[13]
which examines the way Americans worship, how organized religion and politics intersect in America, and how this powerful collision is transforming the current and future American mind-set. The book is beginning to gather accolades for its timeliness and fair coverage from many sides of the issue. Suarez was a contributing editor for
Si
Magazine, a short-lived magazine depicting the
Latino
experience in the U.S.
Suarez hosted the program
Destination Casa Blanca
, produced by HITN TV from 2008 to 2011. The program covered Latino politics and policy for a national audience from Washington, D.C.
He is a contributor to the
Oxford Companion to American Politics
(June 2012), and wrote the companion volume to a PBS documentary series on the history of Latinos in America,
Latino Americans: The 500-Year History That Shaped a Nation
published by Penguin in 2013.
Suarez has contributed to many other books, including
How I Learned English,
Brooklyn: A State of Mind
,
Saving America's Treasures
, and
About Men.
His columns, op-eds, and criticism have been published in
The New York Times
, the
Washington Post
, and the
Chicago Tribune
.
He co-wrote and hosted the 2009 documentary for PBS
Jerusalem: Center of the World,
[14]
and narrated for PBS
Anatomy of a Pandemic
, on the
H1N1
outbreak.
In October 2021, the first two episodes of Suarez's podcast series
Going for Broke
were released by
The Nation
magazine in partnership with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
[15]
Honors
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- Named as a 1996
Utne Reader
"Visionaries"
[
citation needed
]
- Named as Hispanic Business
"100 Influentials"
among American Latinos
- 1995 Global Awareness Award
by Current History Magazine
[5]
- 1996 Studs Terkel Award, Community Media Workshop
- 1993-94 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards (part of NPR's award for on-site coverage of the first all-race elections in South Africa)
[
citation needed
]
- 1994-95 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards (part of NPR's award for coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress)
[
citation needed
]
- 1996
Ruben Salazar
Award from the
National Council of La Raza
[
citation needed
]
- 2005 Distinguished Policy Leadership Award from
UCLA
's School of Public Policy
- Distinguished Alumnus Award from NYU
[
citation needed
]
- Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago
[
citation needed
]
- 2009 - Distinguished Eagle Scout
[16]
- 2010-Hall of Fame, National Association of Hispanic Journalists
- 2012- Bridge-Builder Award, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
- 2013 Schwartz Visiting Fellow, Pomfret School, Pomfret CT.
- Honorary doctorates
Bibliographies
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Suarez, Ray (2013).
Latino Americans: The 500-Year History That Shaped a Nation
. New York: Penguins Book.
ISBN
978-0451238146
.
See also
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References
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- ^
Ray Suarez Biography
Archived
2013-01-21 at
archive.today
- ^
"Latino Groups Rally Around Ray Suarez After He Claimed He Was Marginalized at PBS NewsHour"
.
Fox News
. 21 December 2016.
- ^
"Distinguished Eagle Scouts"
(PDF)
. Scouting.org. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 2016-03-12
. Retrieved
2010-11-04
.
- ^
"Regional Scout Council honors Hispanic leaders, George Washington University"
.
Ibarra Strategy Group, Inc
. 2009-12-09. Archived from
the original
on 2010-11-22
. Retrieved
July 1,
2010
.
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a
b
Connecticut Forum.
"Ray Suarez"
.
Biography
. Archived from
the original
on January 1, 2009
. Retrieved
July 1,
2010
.
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Wolfe, Alan (September 17, 2006).
"One Nation Under God"
.
The Washington Post
. Retrieved
May 22,
2010
.
- ^
"Puryevor of truth,"
San Antonio Express-News
, April 16, 2017, p. F2.
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a
b
c
Wines, Michael
(February 6, 1994).
"Radio; A Radio Talk Show That Doesn't Run on Vitriol"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
2020-11-01
.
- ^
Goodman, Walter
(October 19, 1999).
"Critic's Notebook; Now a Word From Our Spon ... uh, um ... Our Friend"
.
The New York Times
. p. E2
. Retrieved
2020-11-01
.
- ^
Stelter, Brian
(August 13, 2013).
"
'NewsHour' Appoints First Female Anchor Team"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
2020-11-01
.
- ^
Lears, Jackson (October 24, 1999).
"Throwaway Cities [review of "The Old Neighborhood ...."]"
.
The New York Times
. Section 7, p. 45
. Retrieved
2020-11-01
.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684834022
The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060829974
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America
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Genzlinger, Neil (March 31, 2009).
"Visiting the Dry City Where 3 Religions Have Flourished"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
2020-11-01
.
- ^
"
The Nation
Launches
Going for Broke With Ray Suarez
, a New Podcast Hosted by the Veteran Broadcast Journalist"
.
The Nation
. 18 October 2021.
- ^
received during National Capital Area Council, Boy Scouts of America's Hispanic Leadership Awards on December 9, 2009
- ^
"Journalist Ray Suarez Will Deliver K's 2014 Commencement Address, Receive Honorary Degree"
.
kzoo.edu
. 29 May 2014
. Retrieved
26 March
2015
.
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