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Frances Robles

I have an unusual position at The Times in that I work for both the National and Foreign desks. On National, I am a member of our investigative team, which means that on big breaking news events I am usually tasked with quickly explaining not just what happened, but why. I am based in Florida, so I often chase hurricanes — usually with an eye for accountability reporting.

I specialize in deeply reported investigative stories out of Florida, Central America, Cuba and Puerto Rico on a range of topics, including migration, corruption, police shootings, human rights and government spending. I have a lot of experience covering both Cuba and Nicaragua.

I have been a journalist for more than 30 years, first in Cleveland, and then in Miami, Latin America and New York.

Before joining The Times in 2013, I worked at The Miami Herald, where I covered Cuba, and was based in both Nicaragua and Colombia. I was the lead reporter on the Trayvon Martin case for The Herald. A native New Yorker, I graduated from New York University and was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University.

I was a key member of a team that won the George Polk Award for international reporting for coverage of the assassination of the Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. My investigation into the shoddy work of a Brooklyn homicide detective led to more than a dozen murder convictions’ being overturned and won a Polk award for justice reporting. I was a contributor to two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams and was a finalist for three more.

In my spare time, I work very hard with our union, the Times Guild. I helped relaunch The Times’s Latino Network and enjoy putting on workshops for my colleagues.

As a Times journalist, I share the values and adhere to the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook.

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