He was a co-recipient of two DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton awards, for coverage of the 1994 South African elections, and the Gingrich Revolution and the 1995 Republican takeover in the House of Representatives. Over the years, many organizations and institutions have recognized and honored Suarez and his work.
His first book looked at the decades of transition in urban America, The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration (Free Press, 1999). In 2005, he published an examination of the tightening relationship between religion and electoral politics, The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America. He wrote the 2013 companion volume to the PBS documentary series, Latino Americans. During his decades as a broadcaster, Suarez also did extensive work as a writer. The New York Times called Suarez the “thinking man’s talk show host,” and “a national resource.” Along with years of daily deadline journalism, Suarez has done extensive work in long-form broadcast storytelling. Before PBS NewsHour, Suarez was the Washington-based host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation for six-and-a-half years. In 2004, and again in 2008, Suarez moderated presidential candidates debates broadcast on PBS and HDnet. During his years at The NewsHour, Suarez covered the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, four presidential elections, among hundreds of other stories. Before coming to AJAM, Suarez spent 14 years as a correspondent and anchor at public television’s nightly newscast, The PBS NewsHour where he rose to become chief national correspondent. In 2010, Ray was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Assocation of Hispanic Journalists.Veteran journalist Ray Suarez was most recently the host of Al Jazeera America’s daily news program, Inside Story. 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. 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.
Ray most recently published the book, Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation, a companion volume to the PBS series.
Before that, he spent 7 years covering local and national stories for WMAQ-TV, NBC’s O&O in Chicago.Įarlier 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 joined “NewsHour” in October 1999 from NPR, where he had hosted “Talk of the Nation “ since 1993.
No word yet on where he’ll be going next. He had been with the show for the past 14 years. Ray Suarez has resigned as chief national correspondent for “PBS NewsHour.” His last day is October 25.
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