A veteran broadcaster with more than 25 years in the news business, Ray Suarez is a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, serving as a Washington-based correspondent responsible for conducting interviews, studio discussion and debates, reporting from the field and serving as a backup anchor. Known to millions of National Public Radio listeners as the former host of “Talk of the Nation,” Mr. Suarez was recently named host of American RadioWorks, public radio’s largest documentary production team. He began work in January on the documentary “Intelligent Designs on Evolution.”
Currently working on a new book, The Holy Vote: Politics of Faith in America, Mr. Suarez is the author of The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, and has contributed to several other books. His essays and criticism have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, among other publications.
Prior to his work for NPR, Mr. Suarez spent seven years covering local, national and international stories for the NBC-owned station, WMAQ-TV in Chicago. Over the course of his career he has been 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. He has also narrated, anchored or reported many special programs and documentaries for public radio and television including a weekly series, Follow the Money (PBS), and The Execution Tapes (2001, Public Radio), Through Our Own Eyes (2000, KQED), Take This Heart (1998, KCTS), State of the Union (1997, Wisconsin Public Television), Of Hopes and Fears (1995, WTTW), and Growing Up Scared (1994, WTTW).
Suarez shared in NPR's 1993-94 and 1994-95 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards for on-site coverage of the first all-race elections in South Africa and the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, respectively. He has been honored with the 1996 Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza, Current History magazine's 1995 Global Awareness Award, and a Chicago Emmy Award.
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A veteran broadcaster with more than 25 years in the news business, Ray Suarez is a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, serving as a Washington-based correspondent responsible for conducting interviews, studio discussion and debates, reporting from the field and serving as a backup anchor. Known to millions of National Public Radio listeners as the former host of “Talk of the Nation,” Mr . . . full bio