Who is Rosa Flores? – Biography
Rosa Flores is a CNN correspondent based in Miami who covers domestic news in the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as international news in 14 countries for CNN’s TV and digital platforms.
How old is Rosa Flores? – Age
She was born in the United States of America. She has not revealed her date of birth thus not revealing her age.
Rosa Flores Education
She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism, a Bachelor’s degree in business administration, and a Master’s degree in accounting, and was named an Outstanding Young Texas Exes in 2018.
Flores is also a graduate of the FBI Miami Citizens Academy, a judge for the Dan Rather Medals for News & Guts, and a member of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication’s Leadership Council since 2018.
Rosa Flores Husband
She secretly married her long-time boyfriend at a simple ceremony overseas. She is known for zealously safeguarding her privacy and rarely discloses her private life or personal details to the media.
Rosa Flores Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
What is Rosa Flores Salary?
Rosa earns $93 thousand yearly.
Rosa Flores Career
Flores oversaw the network’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Florida in 2020, with a focus on holding Governor Ron DeSantis accountable for his lockdown policies and vaccine rollout. She also shared personal accounts of how the pandemic affected children, the unemployed, the elderly, and the poor.
Flores continues to lead CNN’s coverage of the U.S. Catholic church scandal, reporting from across the country on how clergy are being held accountable, as well as to the Vatican for the 2019 bishop conference on clergy sex abuse. Her coverage of American deaths in the Dominican Republic, families separated at the US-Mexico border, and a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas in 2019 was also noteworthy.
Her 2017 investigation into the death of Roshad McIntosh, a Chicago teen shot and killed by a Chicago cop, resulted in the city’s investigation being reopened. Flores’ investigation is chronicled in “Beneath The Skin,” a three-part CNNgo documentary. An EBBY Award and a National Association of Black Journalists Award were given to the project. Since the city’s investigation was reopened, the Chicago Civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended that one of the officers involved be fired in 2020.
Flores believes it is critical to cover criminal justice stories. Her project “The Disappearing Front Porch” gave children in Chicago who were caught in the crossfire of violence a voice. The National Association of Black Journalists awarded the project the Online Project: News award. She received a fellowship from the John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Center on Media, Crime, and Justice Reporting in 2017. Flores covered Pope Francis’ visits to Panama for World Youth Day, the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, and Peru from the papal plane, including an impromptu wedding between two flight attendants at 36,000 feet. She also covered Francis’ visit to his native South America in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Her coverage of the Pope and the Catholic Church earned her a Distinguished Journalist Award from the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation in 2018.
President Barack Obama’s visit to Argentina was covered by Flores, as was his attendance at the Seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, which included the historic handshake between the US and Cuba after more than half a century of cold war rivalry. Flores also traveled to Cuba to cover the re-establishment of US-Cuban relations. She also covers international breaking news stories such as the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, the 2015 explosion of a maternity hospital in Mexico City, the 2015 detention of five Syrians in Honduras traveling with fake passports, and the 2014 influx of unaccompanied minors across the US southern border and deportation to Honduras. Flores also reported from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the build-up to the 2016 Olympic Games.
She spent more than two weeks in Guerrero, Mexico’s southern state, in 2014 investigating the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students. Her reporting earned her the Large Market Television Hard News Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Flores began working for CNN in 2013. She spent two years in New York City and two years in Chicago. She was the anchor of the 4 p.m. newscast at WBRZ-TV, an ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge, before joining CNN.
She discovered soil contamination in the East Baton Rouge Parish School District while working at WBRZ, prompting the district to test all of its schools. Flores previously worked at WDSU-TV, an NBC affiliate in New Orleans, where he covered business and breaking news stories. She began her career in television reporting at KWTV-TV in Oklahoma City, where she began reporting for KHOU-TV, a CBS affiliate in Houston, in September 2007. Her second career, however, is in news reporting. In this Reporter Notebook, learn how a prayer and a promise led to a career change for her.