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.
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