Rosa Flores is an award winning journalist based in Chicago, Illinois. She is a CNN correspondent covering domestic and international news stories.

Rosa Flores (Journalist) earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, Bachelor's degree in business administration, and Master's degree in accounting at the University of Texas, Austin.

In July 2013, Flores became a journalist at CNN. Terence Burke, Vice President of Newsgathering for CNN/U.S. announced it on June 12, 2013:

After that, Flores said in a statement:

Before joining CNN, she anchored the 4pm newscast at WBRZ-TV, the ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Prior to moving to Louisiana's capital city, Flores covered enterprise and breaking news stories at WDSU-TV, the NBC affiliate in New Orleans. Her reporting included extensive coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Prior to that, she reported for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas and KWTV-TV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Flores joined CNN in 2013.

She covered Pope Francis, from the papal plane, during his visit to the United States, Cuba, and Mexico. She also traveled to Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to cover Francis' visit to South America. Flores covered President Obama's Barack Obama visit to Argentina and also his attendance to the Seventh Summit of the Americas in 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 reestablishment of relations between the US and Cuba.

Most recently, Flores traveled to Rio de Janeiro to cover the lead up to the Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. She covered the explosion of a Mexico City, Mexico maternity hospital, the detention of five Syrians in Honduras traveling with fake passports, the influx of unaccompanied minors across the US southern border and then their deportation back to Honduras.

In 2014, she spent nearly three weeks in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero covering the disappearance of the 43 missing students of Ayotzinapa. Her coverage landed her the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Large Market Television Hard News Award. Flores also worked with CNN's Documentary Unit on a one-hour CNN Special Report called "A Miner Miracle, Five years after the Chilean Rescue." She traveled to Chile in 2015 to revisit the stories of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in a mine for 69 days in 2010.

Flores was always interested in journalism.

Her professional career actually started in accounting.

In an interview with Latina (magazine), she said, "When I was really young in my career I thought my life was set." It all started when she had to pass her Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Rosa prayed to Our Lady of Guadalupe that if she passed her exam she promised to go back to the Rio Grande Valley in Mexico to deliver food and toys to those in need and fortunately a month later she learned that she did pass.^[21]

Rosa traveled with her family to deliver food, clothing, and toys in a little town called Nuevo Progreso. "The moment that I had an epiphany was when I was delivering the food and the clothing to the women and I was giving toys to the kids and there was this little boy who comes up and says, ‘Can I please have the food and not the toys because my mom can’t come and get the food because she’s sick,’ and it absolutely tore my heart to shreds. It made me reflect on what I was embarking on and how I thought my life had been set but I was so moved by the stories that I had heard from so many people. They were people from South America who were hoping to come to the United States and were dreaming about the American Dream," she shared.^[21]

Flores kept doing community service and was even awarded for her volunteer work at her accounting job but she revealed, "It dawned on me that it was the stories of those people that moved me so much and I couldn’t ignore it.

I quit my job in accounting and that’s why I’m here.

I feel such a huge responsibility to do that, to tell the real stories of people, to tell the real-life stories that impact people's lives just like it impacted mine.

That's why I do what I do.

That's why my passion for seeking the truth such as in Cynthia Lane's case, Roshad's mother, in Beneath the Skin is so important to me.

A lot of people told me, 'You're crazy.

Journalists don't make any money.

You're going to be covering food stamps stories and then you're also going to be on those food stamps'," but she said she didn't listen.^[21]