Carol Rosenberg is a senior journalist, currently with the McClatchy News Service. Rosenberg works at the Miami Herald, which has provided extensive coverage of the operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

The middle sister of science fiction novelist Joel Rosenberg, Carol Rosenberg was raised in West Hartford, Connecticut before attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The New York Times interviewed her in 1980 when the campus was evacuated due to a water system breakdown. By 1991 she was working for the Miami Herald, and covering international stories.Clarence Page wrote that Rosenberg and a colleague Susan Sachs of Newsday were barred by Pentagon officials from reporting on the 1st Marine Division's activity during the 1991 Gulf War. She has been a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University and has appeared on PBS's NewsHour and CBC Radio's international news program Dispatches.

A significant amount of Rosenberg's coverage focuses on the terrorism trials and suicides at Guantanamo. She has written about a prisoner so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he asked to stay at the prison in Cuba. She has written about how bottled water at Guantanamo is kept chilled in an almost two-ton shipping refrigerator meant for the dead. She has also written about one general attacking another general as "abusive, bullying, unprofessional" in a dispute over trial tactics at the war court.