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featured program: Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One
Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One is a provocative, in-depth series featuring interviews with
America's foremost Latino artists, writers, activists and civic leaders. The series is a production of La Plaza, the Latino Production Unit of WGBH Boston. Maria Hinojosa: One-
on-One airs on public television stations across the United States and is available on wgbh.org as
a video stream.
Maria Hinojosa is an Award-winning journalist and author, and the managing editor and host
of public
radio's Latino USA. A seasoned journalist who has been interviewing people for more than 25
years, Hinojosa is also the senior correspondent for the Emmy Award-winning PBS newsmagazine
NOW with David Brancaccio.
 Throughout her career, Maria has garnered
many awards and honors. Since 1995 Hispanic Business Magazine has named her one of the
100 most influential Latinos in the United States three times. In 1995, Maria received the Robert F.
Kennedy award for "Manhood Behind Bars," a story for NPR which documented how incarceration has
become a right of passage for men of all races.
In 1991, Maria Hinojosa won an Associated Press award for her coverage of Nelson Mandela for WNYC
Radio. That same year, she won a Unity Award and the Top Story of the Year Award from the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists for her NPR story, "Crews" about New York gang members. The NPR
story evolved into the 1995 book, Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa.
In 1993 she received both the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Radio Award and the New
York Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Award for her NPR report, "Kids and Guns." Hinojosa
also authored the book, Raising Raul.
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