Carol Rosenberg
VerifiedCarol Rosenberg’s Biography
Carol Rosenberg joined the staff of The Miami Herald in 1990. She has covered the Guantanamo Bay detention center and related controversies longer than any journalist, from the arrival of the first prisoners on Jan. 11, 2002 through the present. The former Supreme Allied Commander of Europe called her the dean of the Guantanamo press corps, and she's spoken on Guantanamo at Columbia Journalism School, Yale Law School, Stanford University and before the New York City Bar Association. A 1981 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, she was a professional journalism fellow at Stanford University 1994-95. She has served as The Herald’s Middle East correspondent, Washington correspondent, Foreign Affairs writer and Military Affairs correspondent. In addition to Guantanamo, Rosenberg has covered the last days of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, the federal raid that took the Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' house in Miami and returned him to Cuba, and the embryonic days of Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.