Rose Schnabel

Report for America Reporter - Innovation News Center

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Rose Schnabel joined the College in July 2024 as a Report for America Corps Member, a journalistic service in the Innovation News Center. Schnabel joins the new Environment & Ag Desk covering the agriculture, water and climate change beat in North Central Florida for WUFT News.

Prior to joining CJC, Schnabel worked as a bilingual AAAS Mass Media Fellow at El Nuevo Día in San Juan, covering science and environment. She holds undergraduate degrees in biology and Spanish from Indiana University (IU), where she completed an honors thesis on the rhetoric of science in early clinical trials of the birth control pill. Schnabel has previously written for The Xylom, the IU Journal of Undergraduate Research, and the IU College of Arts and Sciences.

Education

B.S. Biology, Spanish Language and Literature 2024, Indiana University

News

• WUFT Reporter Rose Schnabel wins 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for Outstanding Environmental Journalism (October 2, 2026)
• “When Lightning Strikes” wins ONA Student Journalism Award, “Price of Paradise” is runner-up (September 4, 2026)
• Recent CJC graduates receive three 2026 National Edward R. Murrow Awards (August 14, 2026)
• UFCJC staff and students win prestigious 2026 Public Media Journalists Association National Awards (June 15, 2026)
• WUFT wins five 2026 Region 13 RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards (May 28, 2026)
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Courses

• JOU 4314 - Environmental Journalism - Fall 2026 - course #17260

Reporting on WUFT.org

• Sin fecha la reanudación de la audiencia de un choque fatal en el condado de Marion (September 25, 2026)
• No date set to resume hearing on deadly Marion County crash (September 24, 2026)
• Drought-dried springs already suffered from low flow, scientists say (September 23, 2026)
• In this Florida forest, hope grows after a wildfire (September 11, 2026)
• Researchers ask Floridians to help identify pollinator habits this week (August 17, 2026)
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