Rosa Flores

Rosa Flores is an MSNOW National Reporter based in Houston, Texas, covering major breaking news and enterprise stories across all platforms for the network. Before joining MSNOW, Flores was a correspondent at CNN, based in Houston, Miami, Chicago, and New York, where she covered major domestic and international news for the network’s worldwide platforms from more than a dozen countries. Flores’ extensive coverage of immigration issues along the U.S.-Mexico border, with a focus on humanitarian reporting, landed her on InStyle Magazine’s list of 50 Badass Women. She covered Pope Francis from the papal plane during his visits to Panama for World Youth Day, the United States, Cuba, Mexico, Chile, and Peru, including the first-ever papal marriage on a plane. Her extensive coverage of Francis, which also included his visits to Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay, was recognized by Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation in 2018 with a Distinguished Journalist Award. Her investigation into the death of Roshad McIntosh, a Chicago teenager who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer, led to the reopening of the city’s investigation and resulted in one of the officers involved being recommended for termination. Flores’ investigation was turned into a three-episode documentary called “Beneath The Skin”. It was awarded the EPPY Award for the best enterprise and investigative video, and the National Association of Black Journalists Online Project Award. Covering crime and policing stories is important to Flores. Her project, “The Disappearing Front Porch,” which conveyed the story of violence in Chicago through children’s voices, received the Online Project: News award from the National Association of Black Journalists. In 2017, she was honored with the John Jay/H.F. Guggenheim Center on Media, Crime and Justice Reporting Fellowship. Before her roles at national news networks, she worked at KWTV in Oklahoma City, KHOU in Houston, WDSU in New Orleans, and WBRZ in Baton Rouge. However, news reporting is her second career. A prayer and a promise led her to switch careers from accounting to reporting. Flores earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, a bachelor's degree in business administration, and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was honored as an Outstanding Young Texas Exes in 2018.