Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa has spent her career covering those silenced in the media. Now she's telling her own story in a new memoir. 'We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public,' she says.
"We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," said Maria Hinojosa, author of a new memoir,Hinojosa, who came to the U.S. from Mexico with her family as a child, worked as a reporter at CBS, NPR and CNN when journalism was whiter and even more male than it is now. In an interview with NPR's"People were not saying nice things to me," she said."They would say, 'Oh, you have an agenda.
Diverse, authentic stories of immigrants, she said, are necessary to dispel the myths and"hatred" that date back to the founding of America. In the full interview, Hinojosa also addresses her fear in once largely white newsrooms, going public about being a sexual assault survivor, and why silenced voices need to keep speaking up.Let's talk about your road to becoming a journalist. That road led through NPR. In fact, my colleague Scott Simon hired you. An executive told you back then that you were rare — a well-educated, well-traveled Latina.
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