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Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series to Feature Veteran Journalist Ray Suarez on Thursday, February 8 at 7 p.m.
January 25, 2007
WHAT: MPR presents veteran journalist Ray Suarez, host of American Public Media's American RadioWorks documentary series and author of his new book, The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America
WHEN: Thursday, February 8, 2007, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul
TICKETS: FREE, but tickets are required. Tickets can be found at all four Twin Cities Bibelot Shops locations beginning January 26.
MEDIA: This event will be recorded for potential future broadcast. Contact Jennifer Haugh at 651-290-1369 or jhaugh@mpr.org for accommodations, including a media mult box.
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes Ray Suarez at the Kagin Commons Alexander G. Hill Ballroom on the campus of Macalester College on Thursday, February 8 at 7 p.m.
Suarez will discuss his new book, The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America, which examines the way Americans worship, how organized religion and politics intersect in America, and how this powerful collision is transforming the current and future American mindset.
About Ray Suarez Ray Suarez has been the host of American Public Media's national documentary unit American RadioWorks since January 2006. He is also the Washington-based senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Suarez has more than 25 years of varied experience in the news business, including six years of hosting NPR's Talk of the Nation.
Suarez wrote the book The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration (Free Press) and has contributed to several others, including Brooklyn: A State of Mind (Workman, 2001), Local Heroes (Norton, 2000) Saving America's Treasures (National Geographic, 2000), Las Christmas (Knopf, 1998), and About Men (Poseidon, 1986).
Suarez 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. Suarez shared in NPR's 1993-94 and 1994-95 duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Awards and has been honored with the 1996 Ruben Salazar Award from the National Council of La Raza, and Current History's 1995 Global Awareness Award.
About the Broadcast Journalist Series Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series, now in its 11th season, commissions journalists and correspondents for a 24-hour residency four times a year. While here, they share their insights on their craft as well as on people and events that affect them professionally. Past journalists include Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist Thomas Friedman, and NPR's Deborah Amos, Alex Chadwick, and Don Gonyea.
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series is sponsored by Macalester College, The Bibelot Shops and Dorsey & Whitney.
Press Contacts:
Jennifer Haugh
Minnesota Public Radio
651-290-1369
jhaugh@mpr.org
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