PBS ‘NewsHour’ Called Out for Lack of Diversity

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 I didn’t have much of a future with the broadcast,” Suarez told Fox. “(They) didn’t have much of a plan for me.”

The National Hispanic Media Coalition has issued an open letter on what it calls the network’s “historic under-inclusion of Latinos.”

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