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Once I was you a memoir of love and hate in a torn America

"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion." "--

Main Author: Hinojosa, Maria, 1961- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Atria Books, 2020.
Edition: First Artia Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Hinojosa, Maria, > 1961-
Television journalists > United States > Biography.
Radio journalists > United States > Biography.
Hispanic American journalists > Biography.
Hispanic American women > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion." "--
Physical Description: 343 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-330) and index.
ISBN: 9781982128654
1982128658
Author Notes: Maria Hinojosa's nearly thirty-year career as a journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WGBH, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring and executive producing the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA , the longest running national Latinx news program in the country, distributed by PRX. She is a frequent guest on MSNBC, and has won several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, four Emmys, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award. Her seven-part podcast series Suave won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2022. She has also been inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2010 she founded Futuro Media, an independent nonprofit newsroom and production company with the mission of producing multimedia content from a POC perspective. Through the breadth of her work and as the founding coanchor of the political podcast In the Thick , Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. She lives with her family in Harlem in New York City.

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