5/11/2023 0 Comments The Old Neighborhood by Ray Suarez![]() They talked to other reporters who had covered the story. They didn’t talk to any of the principals involved in the story. “I watched an hour of one of the 24-hour news networks this morning,” he said. As host of an episode of Talk of the Nation that aired as part of the Hispanic Journalists Convention of June 1998, Suarez lamented the insularity of many commercial news outlets. ![]() When trends in commercial news began to conflict with his journalistic ideals, he opted for a job in public broadcasting. In 1986, Suarez took a job at Chicago’s WMAQ-TV, where he spent seven years covering local, national, and international stories. Too soon, he realized that American news organizations “just didn’t care” about having a correspondent in Africa, which thwarted his plans and prompted him to come up with a plan B. In 1985, immediately after graduating from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in African history, Suarez was living his dream, traveling and reporting from around the continent. ![]() He planned a career around this buried treasure, as a journalist reporting from Africa. ![]() But the sack of coins, tucked away in his father’s closet, gave the young Suarez his first glimpse of life outside of Brooklyn. Ray Suarez’s father probably didn’t anticipate that the collection of foreign coins he accumulated while in the Navy would inspire a remarkable journalistic career. ![]()
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