Rose Arce

Rose Marie Arce is an American journalist and documentary producer. She is vice president of Soledad O'Brien Productions, the production company of journalist Soledad O'Brien.[1] She previously spent nearly 15 years at CNN as a senior producer.[1] Earlier in her career she worked at CBS News, WCBS-TV, New York Newsday, and the New York Daily News.[2] Arce has won a Pulitzer Prize, three Emmy Awards, and a Peabody Award.[3]

Early life and education

Arce's parents are Peruvian immigrants.[3] She grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and attended McLean High School in Virginia, where she worked on the school newspaper.[3][4] She graduated from Barnard College in 1986.[5]

Career

Arce started out in community journalism at a newspaper in upstate New York in the mid-1980s, then reported on police and education for the New York Daily News before joining New York Newsday.[1][2] At Newsday, she was part of the staff that covered the 1991 Union Square derailment; they won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting.[6]

She moved into television as a producer at WCBS-TV, winning two Emmy Awards for investigative reports on abortion and policing, and then worked at CBS News.[2][7]

At CNN, where she worked from the late 1990s until roughly 2013, Arce covered the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the war in Afghanistan, and other breaking stories.[1][2] On September 11, 2001, she ran from her Lower Manhattan apartment toward the World Trade Center and reported live on the air for CNN throughout the day; the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences later recognized her as one of the few reporters broadcasting from Ground Zero all day.[3][8] Her account of that day is included in the book Women at Ground Zero (2002).[7] At CNN she also produced documentaries including parts of the Black in America (2008) and Latino in America (2009) series, Her Name Was Steven (2010), and Beyond Bravery: The Women of 9/11 (2011).[3][9]

Since leaving CNN, Arce has worked with Soledad O'Brien at what is now Soledad O'Brien Productions (SO'B Productions).[1] Producing credits include The Perfect Neighbor (2025), which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 98th Academy Awards and won five Critics' Choice Documentary Awards,[10][11] and The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2024), nominated for Best Documentary Short Film.[12][13]

Arce has taught journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.[3] She has also held leadership roles with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.[3]

Books

  • Bebés Preciosos: 5001 Hispanic baby names (Avon Books, 1995) Arce and Maité Junco; ISBN 0380778432[14]
  • Latino in America (Celebra, 2009), Soledad O'Brien with Arce – publisher description: "the definitive tie-in to one of the most heavily anticipated CNN documentaries"
  • The Next Big Story: my journey through the land of possibilities (New American Library, 2010), Soledad O'Brien with Arce

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Anderson, Nicole (2024). "'A Common Set of Facts'". Barnard Magazine. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  2. ^ a b c d "Good Talk with Rose Arce". Good Docs. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "IDA Member Spotlight: Rose Arce". International Documentary Association. 2026-02-20. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  4. ^ "Rose Arce". Clay. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  5. ^ "CNN producer Rose Arce '86 recounts her experience as a Latina mother". Barnard College. 2011-07-19. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  6. ^ "Spot News Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  7. ^ a b Hagen, Susan; Carouba, Mary (2002). Women at Ground Zero: Stories of Courage and Compassion. Alpha Books. p. 245. ISBN 9780028644226.
  8. ^ "Reporter turns to 9/11 experience during war coverage". Yahoo! News. 2011-08-17. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  9. ^ "Rebuilding, remembering at ground zero". CNN. 2011-05-28. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  10. ^ "The Perfect Neighbor". Netflix Tudum. 2025. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  11. ^ "Oscar Documentary Nominations: Director Geeta Gandbhir Scores Two Nods". Deadline Hollywood. 2026-01-23. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  12. ^ "The 98th Academy Awards | 2026". www.oscars.org. 2026-02-04. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  13. ^ "The Devil Is Busy". DOC NYC. Retrieved 2026-02-24.
  14. ^ "Bebés preciosos : 5001 Hispanic baby names {...}". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
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