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Auction Ends: Dec 10, 2009 09:00 PM EST

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Have dinner with Maria Hinojosa

Item Number
134
Estimated Value
Priceless
Sold
210 USD to Andy3Jo235
Number of Bids
11  -  Bid History

Item Description

Ever wished you could have dinner with groundbreaking journalist Maria Hinojosa? Here's your chance. Meet up with Hinojosa at one of her favorite NYC haunts, and spend an unforgettable evening dining and conversing with one of journalism's living legends.

Award-winning journalist and author Maria Hinojosa is managing editor and host of Latino USA. In addition to hosting each week’s show, Hinojosa is the senior correspondent for the Emmy Award -winning PBS newsmagazine NOW. Before joining NOW, Hinojosa was the urban affairs correspondent for CNN. Prior to joining CNN, Hinojosa spent six years as a New York-based correspondent for National Public Radio. During this time, she also hosted Visiones, a public affairs talk show on WNBC-TV in New York.

In 1991, Hinojosa worked for WNYC-TV as the host of New York Hotline, a live, primetime call-in public affairs show, and in 1990 worked for WNYC Radio as a general assignment correspondent.

From 1988 to 1989, Hinojosa served as a producer and researcher for CBS This Morning, and in 1987 worked for CBS Radio as a producer. Among the shows she produced for CBS Radio: Where We Stand with Walter Cronkite, The Osgood File and Newsbreak.

Item Special Note

Dinner will be arranged on a mutually convenient date once payment has cleared. Cost of dinner is included. Dinner venue must be agreed upon by the winning bidder, Hinojosa, and WAM!. All sales are final -- please contact us in advance with any questions about this item. Women, Action, & the Media is a project of New Words Live, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.