Ray Suárez resigns from PBS NewsHour
By Verónica Villafañe, Media Moves
Ray Suarez has resigned as chief national correspondent for “PBS NewsHour.” His last day is October 25. He had been with the show for the past 14 years. No word yet on where he’ll be going next.
Ray joined “NewsHour” in October 1999 from NPR, where he had hosted “Talk of the Nation“ since 1993. Before that, he spent 7 years covering local and national stories for WMAQ-TV, NBC’s O&O in Chicago.
Earlier in his career, he was a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, a producer for the ABC Radio Network in New York, a reporter for CBS Radio in Rome, and a reporter for various American and British news services in London.
Ray most recently published the book, Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation, a companion volume to the PBS series.
He is also the author of The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America and The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration. He has contributed to several other books, including The Oxford Companion to American Politics, How I Learned English and Saving America’s Treasures, among others.
In 2010, Ray was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Assocation of Hispanic Journalists.
This article was first published in Media Moves.
Veronica Villafañe is an Emmy award-winning journalist, who has worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. She has worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. She was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006. She was on the board of NAHJ from 2000 to 2007. She has also served on the board of RTNDA and was an Advisory Board Member of Newswatch. She was most recently the Managing Editor of Intersections South LA, a USC-funded community news website. She is also a freelance writer, reporter and producer, as well as a columnist for Poder Hispanic magazine.
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