Roberto Suro is a veteran print journalist with extensive experience in foreign, domestic and Washington coverage as a senior staffer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Prior to joining the School of Journalism faculty in August 2007, he was director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington D.C. which he founded in 2001 as a project of the Annenberg School for Communication. Below, he tells us more about himself.

Q. What music have you listened to today?

A. Part of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on my iPod at the airport this morning.

Q. When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A. Journalist.

Q. What is your favorite cocktail?

A. A martini.

Q. If you could take only one more journey, where would you go?

A. India.

Q. What profession would you like to practice in your next life?

A. A novelist.

Q. What is your fondest childhood memory?

A. Lunch at my grandfather’s house.

Q. What is your most prized material possession?

A. My old Chinese ancestral portrait that belonged to my father — who wasn’t Chinese. It’s one of the few things of his that I have.

Q. What promise do you make to yourself that you break the most often?

A. To lose weight.

Q. Who is the one person living or dead you would most like to meet for dinner?

A. Zelda Fitzgerald.

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*Photo by Andy Levin.