283 - Assimilation and Rebuilding with Rick Sanchez
283 - Assimilation and Rebuilding with Rick Sanchez
Listeners, we're back this week with Rick Sanchez
Rick Sanchez is an author, producer, news correspondent and TV news host with more than 30 years of experience with CNN, Fox News, NBC News, Univision and iHeartRadio. He is the first ever US Latino with his own namesake and highly rated show on national television, Rick’s List on CNN.Sanchez, an Emmy award winning journalist, has been part of three Peabody Award-winning teams and an Alfred A. Dupont, which is among the most coveted awards in journalism. Sanchez anchored CNN’s Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, NBC’s award winning coverage of the 911 attack, was awarded Florida Broadcaster of the Year for his coverage of Hurricane Andrew and has interviewed four US presidents as well as Russian President Michael Gorbachev, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega from behind bars.
During this episode we talked about:
05:07 - Growing up and getting to the United States
08:51 - La casa de cucarachas
10:51 - The peter pan experience
15:31 - Every time you fall it spurge you to do better
16:28 - Immigrants
18:06 - Reasons bigger than yourself
18:49 - Ricardo becoming Rick
19:09 - I wanted to be an American kid
28:24 - How he decided his career
30:13 - No latinos in news
31:37 - What happened with CNN
35:43 - Remake myself
36:03 - Making the change
38:18 - Remake yourself
40:39 - Agua Media
41:03 - The power of the Latine community
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