Flora Charner

Flora Charner is an award-winning multimedia journalist with 20 years of experience covering national and international news for broadcast, digital and print publications.

She joined the journalism faculty at Texas A&M University in August 2024 after working at CNN for nearly a decade, most recently as a Director of Coverage for the International Newsgathering unit based in the network’s Atlanta headquarters.

Professor Charner was part of the team honored with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage, the duPont-Columbia Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award for CNN’s coverage of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022. She was also awarded an Emmy for CNN’s Breaking News Coverage of Turkey’s incursion into Syria in 2019.

She began her career with CNN as a field producer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reporting on stories throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including the 2016 Summer Olympics, the Zika outbreak and the impeachment process of President Dilma Rousseff. 

Before joining CNN, Professor Charner held writer and producer roles at Al Jazeera English, America’s Quarterly and Associated Press Television in Brazil and Washington DC.

She has an MA in Politics from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and graduated cum laude from Emerson College with a BS in Broadcast Journalism, where she was presented with the College’s Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2015.

She is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and was part of the inaugural cohort of 2024 Adelante Latina Leadership Academy. 

She was born in Caracas, Venezuela and is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.