I'm Not White & I'm Not a Man: Making it in Media with Maria Hinojosa
Remade in America with Bassem Youssef
CAFE
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Maria Hinojosa is the anchor and Executive Producer of NPR's "Latino USA," the longest-running Latino-focused program on public media. She also hosts "In The Thick," Futuro Media Group's political podcast.
Over the past three decades, Maria has reported for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN and NPR, and has won dozens of awards, including: four Emmys, the John Chancellor Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award.
Maria talks with Bassem about embracing two cultures in her childhood as an immigrant from Mexico, being the first Latina at NPR, and what she's done to further the diversification of journalism in America.
If you have questions or comments for Bassem, tweet them to him at @Byoussef with the hashtag #askbassem, email remade@cafe.com, or call 785-422-7736 (785-4-BASSEM) and leave a voicemail.
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| 0:00.0 | Since I have arrived in America I have been hearing things like journalism is under fire. |
| 0:06.0 | Now it seems that all people talk about is fake news and the rise of an American dictatorship. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, let's start publishing these fake news stories without fact checking. |
| 0:15.7 | Fake news. |
| 0:16.7 | Fake news. |
| 0:19.5 | Fake news has become a plague on the web. |
| 0:21.9 | But as I look back to what I lived through in the Middle East, |
| 0:24.8 | my professional opinion about all of this is, |
| 0:27.8 | guys, really? |
| 0:29.8 | I'll be honest, while I try to sound tough, |
| 0:32.1 | telling you guys that you don't even know what an authoritarian |
| 0:34.7 | regime looks like, I realize one important thing. Freedom should never be taken for granted. |
| 0:41.2 | And maybe compared to the journalism hell-hole back in my region, you still have a long way to go before you reach the bottom. |
| 0:48.0 | But it's up to a small group of people to make sure that the state of the media in America doesn't get any worse. |
| 0:55.0 | Today's guest is Maria Inahosa. |
| 0:59.0 | She's one of the many journalists here in America who try every day to deliver real news, to call |
| 1:05.5 | out dishonest leaders, and to protect democracy. |
| 1:09.2 | So the media and journalists who are not part of the mainstream, we have a really important |
| 1:16.1 | duty to help tell the history of the United States of America that is not from a majority |
| 1:20.8 | perspective. |
| 1:21.8 | Maria has been telling other people's stories for her whole career. |
| 1:25.4 | She's worked at NPR, CNN, PBS, CBS, W, and B.C. |
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