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Maria Hinojosa

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Maria Hinojosa
Hinojosa speaking in 2013
Born
Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa Ojeda[1]

(1961-07-02)July 2, 1961(age 63)
Mexico City,Mexico
EducationBarnard College
OccupationJournalist
Known forLatino USA
SpouseGerman Perez
AwardsJohn Chancellor Award
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Edward Murrow Award (Overseas Press Club of America)Pulitzer Prize

Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa Ojeda(born July 2, 1961) is a Mexican-Americanjournalist.She is theanchorand executive producer ofLatino USAonNational Public Radio,a public radio show devoted to Latino issues. She is also the founder, president and CEO of Futuro Media Group, which produces the show.[2]In 2022, Hinojosa won a Pulitzer Prize.[3]

Additionally, she serves as the executive producer ofAmerica By the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Clarkston Georgiawhich premiered onPBSas aNeed to KnowElection 2012 special on September 21, 2012.[4]In 2011, she became the first Latina to anchor aFrontlinereport on PBS (Lost in Detention,a documentary exploring the issue of deportation and immigrant detention and abuse).[5]Since 1995, she has been named three times as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics byHispanic Businessmagazine for her work as a reporter forCBS,NPR,andCNN.[6]

Career[edit]

In 1992, Hinojosa helped launchLatino USA,one of the earliest public radio programs devoted to the Latino community. She has been the host of the show for its entire 30-year run, and since 2000 has also been executive producer.[7]

In 2010, Hinojosa founded Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that respects and celebrates the cultural richness of the American experience.[7]Futuro took over the production ofLatino USA,which was originally produced byKUTinAustin, Texas.America by The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Clarkston Georgiais the first full-length television program to be produced by The Futuro Media Group and the first public affairs program on PBS to be executive produced and anchored by a Latina woman.

Previously, Hinojosa worked for CNN's New York City bureau for eight years, where she reported on urban issues including youth violence and immigrant communities; and she was Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine,NOW on PBS.She also hosted theWNBC-TVpublic affairs show,Visiones.

Hinojosa hosted her own show for five years on PBS,Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One,an interview talk show that featured one-on-one interviews with a diverse group of guests, including actors, writers, activists, and politicians.[8]She has also appeared onV-me,the Spanish-language TV network, where she hostedLa Plaza: Conversaciones con María Hinojosa.

Hinojosa has written three books:Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son,a motherhood memoir;Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa,a collection of interviews with gang members in New York City; andOnce I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America,her experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago and as an adult witness to the US immigration crisis.

In addition, she interviewed various notable Latinos(as) forTimothy Greenfield-Sanders' 2011HBOtelevision specialThe Latino List.The special inspired the publication of a photo book,The Latino List/La Lista De Latinos,co-authored by Hinojosa that includes transcriptions of their interviews.The Latino List: Volume Twopremieres on HBO on September 24, 2012. Hinojosa began hosting the National Public Radio showLatino USAin 1995 and continues to host today.Latino USAis produced exclusively by The Futuro Media Group.[9]

Hinojosa's first journalism experience was as host of a Latino radio show while she was a student atBarnard College,where she graduatedmagna cum laudewith a degree in Latin American studies in 1985.

Hinojosa has acameoin 2021'sIn the Heightsfilm, playing the part of a protest leader at aDREAMerimmigration rally.[10][11][12]

Personal life[edit]

Maria Hinojosa was born inMexico City,the daughter of Berta Maria Ojeda Y de Teresa and Dr. Raul Efren Hinojosa Prieto.[1]She moved with her family to theChicagoneighborhood of Hyde Park in 1962 after her father was appointed to the surgical faculty at theUniversity of Chicago.[13]She currently lives inHarlemwith her husband, the Dominican painter German Pérez, and their adult son and daughter.

In a 2021 episode of thePBSseriesFinding Your Roots,Hinojosa learned that her 11th great-grandfather on her father's side wasDiego de Montemayor,a Spanishconquistadorand the founder of the Mexican city ofMonterrey,and that her third great-grandparents on her mother's side, who lived in Cuba, were members of theSpanish nobility.It was also found that her direct matrilineal line isindigenous Mexican.[1]

Honors and awards[edit]

Hinojosa has won numerous honors and awards for her work, most recently the 2012 John Chancellor Awardfor Excellence in Journalism. Other recognition includes theRobert F. Kennedy Journalism Awardfor Reporting on the Disadvantaged, theNational Association of Hispanic Journalists' Radio Award, the New York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award, theStuds TerkelCommunity Media Award, the Edward R. Murrow Awardfrom the Overseas Press Club, theSidney HillmanPrize, theNational Council of La Raza'sRubén SalazarCommunications Award (named for Mexican American journalist Rubén Salazar), and anAssociated Pressaward.

In 2010, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters fromDePaul University in Chicago.In 2012, she was named DePaul University's new Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Chair.

She has won fourEmmy Awards,including one in 2002 for coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and another in 2008 for her work on Taxing the Poor, documenting the plight of the lower class in Alabama. In 2009, she was honored with anAmerican Women in Radio and Television(AWRT) Gracie Award for Individual Achievement. Hinojosa has been named among the top 25 Latinos in Contemporary American Culture by theHuffington Post.

Maria Hinojosa: One-on-Onewas recognized withNew England Emmy Awardsfor Outstanding Interview Program in 2008 and 2011, and a New England Emmy Award for Outstanding Host/Moderator in 2012. In 2011,One-on-Onereceived anImagen Awardfor its contribution to the positive image of Latinos in the US.

In 2007, she was inducted into the "She Made It" Hall of Fame at thePaley Center for Media/Museum of Television and Radio.[14]

In 2022, thePulitzer PrizeBoard announced that Futuro Media and Hinojosa won a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting for its seven-part podcast series,Suave.[3]

Books[edit]

  • Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America(ISBN9781982128654)
  • Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son(ISBN0140296360)
  • Crews: Gang Members Talk with Maria Hinojosa(ISBN0152002839)
  • The Latino List/La Lista De Latinos(ISBN0983303304)

References[edit]

  1. ^abcStated onFinding Your Roots,April 13, 2021,https://www.pbs.org/video/the-new-world/
  2. ^"Emmy Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa to speak at Barnard convocation".Columbia Spectator.August 15, 2018.
  3. ^ab"Podcast Series by Journalist-in-Residence Maria Hinojosa '84 Earns Futuro Media a Pulitzer Prize".Barnard College.Retrieved2022-05-28.
  4. ^Futuro Media Group HomepageArchived2012-05-25 at theWayback Machine
  5. ^"Lost In Detention" HomepageArchived2015-11-16 at theWayback Machine
  6. ^"The Realities of Diversity: A Conversation With Maria Hinojosa".Radio West.October 22, 2018.
  7. ^ab"Maria Hinojosa".NPR.org.Archivedfrom the original on 2016-06-01.Retrieved2016-05-31.
  8. ^"Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One" official pageArchived2010-11-29 at theWayback Machine
  9. ^Latino USA HomepageArchived2012-09-11 at theWayback Machine
  10. ^Martinelli, Marissa (10 June 2021)."Your Guide to In the Heights' Many Cameos".Slate Magazine.Retrieved16 June2021.That's Maria Hinojosa, host of NPR's Latino USA, giving the speech at the rally for the DREAMers.
  11. ^Arianna Davis (15 September 2020)."Maria Hinojosa:" I Was the First Latina in Every Newsroom I Ever Worked In "".Oprah Daily.Retrieved16 June2021.
  12. ^SUZY EXPOSITO; CAROLINA A. MIRANDA; DANIEL HERNANDEZ (11 June 2021)."'In the Heights' is the rare Latino blockbuster. Three Times writers on what that means ".Los Angeles Times.Retrieved16 June2021.I see this María Hinojosa cameo at a "Dreamer" rally
  13. ^"Press Release".28 July 2015.Archivedfrom the original on 3 August 2017.
  14. ^"She Made It" at the Paley CenterArchived2011-12-23 at theWayback Machine

External links[edit]

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