About Frances Robles

ROBLES, FRANCES covers Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico for the Miami Herald foreign desk. That means she leads the paper's “Fidel Death Watch.” Her first job was covering suburban schools for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, OH. She started at the Herald in 1993 covering higher education, and later moved on to writing about crime and courts. The paper’s former Nicaragua-based Central America correspondent, she also served as bureau chief in Bogotá, Colombia where she covered the civil conflict and government collapses in three countries. Robles decided to come home in 2004, when she realized that in three years she had been to more coups than concerts. Robles has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams and was a finalist for a third. Her coverage of Colombia’s civil war won her the 2003 InterAmerican Press Association News Coverage award. A native New Yorker who graduated from NYU, she was a 2004-2005 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She is a former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and is currently programming chair for the 2009 convention in San Juan.

• Location: AL
• Was accepted for May 17-22 2009 Multimedia Training.

Writing

Content on this site written by Frances Robles (includes contributory writing):

• Projects

  • A Healing Haven for Pets
  • The Berkeley Dog and Cat Hospital specializes in cutting-edge care.