Ray Suarez: A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story
Going for Broke10/18/21 • 21 min
Ray Suarez never wanted to be the center of the story. He’s been a journalist of one kind of another all of his adult life, on radio, on television, in books and newspapers. He was the host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, he was a senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and he had his own daily news show on Al Jazeera America. When that last network ceased operations in 2016, he figured it might take a while to find work, but he had a reputation and good connections that would eventually land him a new gig.
He was in for a rude awakening: As he discovered, if you lose one job late in your career, the next one will both take longer to find, and not last as long as the ones earlier in your working life. For Ray, the endless job search was just the beginning of his troubles. On this episode of Going for Broke, Ray explains how he found himself in the kind of tough situations that he had spent a career reporting on.
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10/18/21 • 21 min
Going for Broke - Ray Suarez: A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story
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RAY SUAREZ: From the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Nation, this is Going for Broke. I’m Ray Suarez.
This series comes from a very basic idea, that in the United States when we talk about poverty, when we talk about economic struggle, poor people, people on the margins, people not succeeding in the modern economy, those people are talked about, but very rarely get the chance to talk for themselves.
Here on Going for Broke,
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