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 of the Israel-Hamas War. She also won an Emmy, duPont-Columbia Award and an Overseas Press Club Award for CNN’s coverage of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and for CNN’s Breaking News Coverage of Turkey’s incursion into Syria in 2019.

She started 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 the Associated Press, Al Jazeera English and America’s Quarterly in Brazil and Washington DC.

She has an MA in Politics from Columbia University’s Journalism School 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 a faculty advisor for the inaugural Texas A&M student chapter. She was also part of the 2024 Adelante Latina Leadership Academy cohort. 

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

Courses Taught

• International Journalism and Communication
• Bilingual Reporting
• New Media