Rosa Flores Biography
Rosa Flores is a Mexican Correspondent/News Anchor/Reporter working for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been working with the network since July 2013.
Rosa Flores Age
Flores likes to keep her personal life private hence she has not yet disclosed the date, month, or year she was born. However, she might be in her 30s.
Rosa Flores Height
Flores stands at the height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Rosa Flores Family
Flores was born and raised in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico to her caring parents. Her mother’s name is Rosa, but she has not revealed any information about her father. On October 5, 2016, during the HESTEC2016’s Latina Day, she praised her mother who played a big role in making her who she is today. Furthermore, Rosa was brought up alongside her brother Juan Flores.
Rosa Flores Husband
Flores is very private about her personal life therefore it is not known if she is in any relationship. There are also no rumors of her being in any past relationship with anyone.
Rosa Flores’s Net Worth
Flores has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$3Million which he/she has earned through his/her successful career as a correspondent.
Rosa Flores Salary
Flores earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 90, 000.
Rosa Flores Education
Flores graduated from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in 2001. Rosa graduated with Bachelor’s degree in business administration, as well as a master’s degree in accounting. In 2004, She attended the University’s school of journalism. Flores also graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2015. In 2018 she was honored as the 2018 outstanding young Texas Exes.
She is also a graduate of the FBI Miami Citizens Academy, where she was chosen to serve for the Dan Rather Medals for News & Guts, and since 2018 has served on the Leadership Council of the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication as a judge.
Rosa Flores Career
Flores works for CNN where she serves as a correspondent in Houston. Rosa covered international news stories in 14 countries for the network’s TV and digital platforms and domestic news stories across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Rosa has also been part of the network’s immigration coverage at the U.S./Mexico border.
The coverage focuses on humanitarian reporting which was recognized by InStyle Magazine’s list of 50 badass women. Furthermore, she has covered the tragic collapse of the condo building in Surfside, Florida.
Moreover, she has been part of the network’s coronavirus pandemic coverage, reporting throughout Florida. In the coverage, she emphasized holding Governor Ron DeSantis accountable for his lockdown policies and vaccine rollout.
Additionally, Flores told stories of how the pandemic impacted the unemployed, the elderly, the underprivileged, and the children. As of today, Rosa continues to lead CNN’s coverage of the U.S. Catholic church scandal.
She had traveled to the country reporting on the Vatican for the 2019 bishop conference on clergy sex abuse and on how clergy was being held accountable. In 2019, Flores reported on families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, the shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and the American deaths in the Dominican Republic.
Rosa Flores [city’s investigation reopening]
The city’s investigation was reopened, after her investigation on the death of Roshad McIntosh, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer, in 2017. The investigation is written in a three-episode CNNgo documentary called “Beneath The Skin.”
The project has been honored with a National Association of Black Journalists Award and an EBBY Award. In 2020 police recommended accountability of police in the Chicago Civilian Office that one of the officers involved be terminated, since the reopening of the city’s investigation.
Flores’s coverage of “The Disappearing Front Porch, “Helped children in Chicago who are caught in the crosshairs of violence. The project was awarded by the National Association of Black Journalists the Online Project News. In 2017, Rosa was honored with the John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Center on Justice Reporting Fellowship, crime, and media.
In addition to that, she has covered the story of Pope Francis, from the papal plane, during his visits to Panama for World Youth Day, to Cuba, Chile, Peru, Mexico, and the United States. Flores also traveled to Paraguay, Ecuador, and Bolivia to report on Pope Francis’ visit to his native South America. She has been awarded a Distinguished Journalist Award in 2018 by the Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation for her coverage of the Pope and the Catholic Church.
Rosa Flores [ President Barack Obama]
Rosa has reported on President Barack Obama’s visit to Argentina and his attendance at the Seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama. The report included the historic handshake between Cuba and the US after a cold war rivalry for more than a half-century. She traveled to Cuba to report on the reestablishment of relations between the US and Cuba.
Furthermore, she covered international breaking news stories. They include the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City and the 2015 explosion of a Mexico City maternity hospital. Then their deportation back to Honduras. Additionally, Rosa has covered the 2016 Rio Olympics from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
She spent more than two weeks in Mexico’s Southern state of Guerrero covering the disappearance of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa in 2014. The coverage gave her an opportunity to have the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ Large Market Television Hard News Award. Flores spent two years on CNN based in Chicago and New York City
Rosa Flores WBRZ-TV
prior to working for CNN, Rosa was serving as an anchor for the 4 pm newscast at WBRZ-TV, the ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge. Where she uncovered the soil contamination in the East Baton Rouge Parish School District, which led to the testing of all schools in the district.
Previously, she was working for WBRZ-TV, she was working for WDSU-TV, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans. Where she covered the enterprise and breaking news stories. Flores also reported for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston in September 2007. Her journalism career journey began in TV reporting at KWTV-TV in Oklahoma City. She has indicated that prayer and a promise led to her career change in this reporter’s Notebook.
Rosa Flores Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She has over 9k followers on Instagram, over 7k followers on Facebook, and over 22k followers on her Twitter accounts.