Jacqueline Charles is an American journalist and

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finalist. Charles is Caribbean Correspondent at the

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Biography

Charles was born on

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of the

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. She was raised an only child of a Haitian mother and a Cuban stepfather and moved to the United States at the age of seven, where they settled in Miami. She began her career in journalism in 1986 as a 14-year-old high school intern at the Miami Herald. She is a graduate of

Miami Jackson High School Miami Jackson Senior High School, also known as Andrew Jackson High School or Jackson High School, is a high school located at 1751 NW 36th Street in the Allapattah neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Its athletic team name is the Gen ...

, Booker T. Washington Junior High and Dunbar Elementary in Overtown, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1994.UNC School of Media and Journalism – Jacqueline Charles
/ref> Before assuming the role on foreign issues, Charles' coverage was local, mainly on the impoverished areas of Miami.

Awards

Charles has won the NABJ Journalist of the Year for coverage of the devastating Haiti 2010 earthquake, and a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist for that same coverage. She won a Regional

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for her role as co-producer on the Herald produced-documentary, "Nou Bouke" (We are fed up) from the

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. The Miami New Times newspaper named her Reporter of the Year. She also won the 2011 Paul Hansell Award, named in honor of a longtime Florida bureau chief for The Associated Press. In 2018 she was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize for her coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haïti.In 2023, she received the International Centre for Journalism (ICFJ) Excellence in International Reporting Award.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Charles, Jacqueline Date of birth unknown Living people American women journalists American people of Haitian descent American people of Turks and Caicos Islands descent UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media alumni Journalists from Miami Turks and Caicos Islands emigrants to the United States Writers from Miami Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women