One of my journalism heroes is Ray Suarez of PBS NewsHour. On January 4, I was fortunate enough to catch him after a panel on presidential election coverage at the PBS portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour.
He said something interesting about Arizona and Nevada. It’s not easy to predict whether those states will go Republican or Democrat in the 2012 election because every day thousands of Latinos turn 18. This led me to ask him what impact Latinos will have on the election.
Here is my short interview with Suarez where he talks about that and what the Supreme Court decision in SB1070 (Arizona’s immigration law) will mean for the rest of the country.
Yvonne Condes is editor and cofounder of MomsLA and founder of YvonneinLA.
By Sara Morrison, The Wrap When Ray Suarez opens his first episode of “Inside Story” for Al Jazeera America on Nov. 11, it’ll be the culmination of his long journalism career, he told TheWrap. “Everything I’ve done for the last 20 years has been leading up to this,” Suarez said. It’ll…
By Lucia Suarez, Fox News Latino Several Latino organizations are coming to the defense of prominent Latino journalist Ray Suarez after the broadcasting giant said he quit PBS because he was starting to feel increasingly marginalized. Suarez (who is not related to this writer) told Fox News Latino this week…
By Jamilah King, Colorlines America’s publicly-funded broadcast network is in trouble. In late October Latino journalist Ray Suarez left the network’s flagship program “NewsHour” after serving as one of its senior correspondents for more than a decade. The longtime journalist later gave Fox News Latino the reasons for his departure. “I felt like…
By Yvonne Condes
