Charlie Rose
This page is about the journalist; there is also a Charlie Rose (congressman) from North Carolina.Charles Peete Rose Jr. (b.
January 5,
1942 in
Henderson, North Carolina) is an
American television interviewer and
journalist. Previously a
correspondent for
60 Minutes II, he currently hosts the interview show
Charlie Rose for
PBS.
Charlie Rose Sr. and wife Margaret lived in rooms above the family-operated
general store. Their only child, Charlie, helped out from the age 7.
A high school basketball star, Rose entered
Duke University planning on pre-med, but an internship in the office of North Carolina senator
B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics. Rose graduated in
1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. He earned a
J.D. from the
Duke University School of Law in
1968. Rose also attended
New York University Stern School of Business.
After his wife was hired by the
BBC (in New York), he handled some assignments for the BBC on a
freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at
Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for
WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after
Bill Moyers agreed to meet Rose and hired him as managing editor for the
PBS series
Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of
Bill Moyers' Journal.
Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with
Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers' series
U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976
Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until
KXAS-TV in
Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the
Charlie Rose show.
Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. He has been romantically linked with
Amanda Burden (daughter of the late
Babe Paley and Stanley Mortimer) since 1993.
Rose worked for
CBS News (
1984-
1990) as the
anchor of
CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast. The
Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with
Charles Manson won an
Emmy Award in 1987.
In 1990 Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of
Personalities, a syndicated program produced by
Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show.
Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station
Thirteen/WNET on
30 September 1991 and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by
Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing. Starting in 2006, the show has been one of the many TV shows available for download via
Google Video.
Since 2003, Rose has sat on the board of directors of
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation.
On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Charlie Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for
mitral valve repair in the
Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of
Dr. Alain Carpentier, a pioneer of the mitral valve repair procedure. Rose returned on
June 12,
2006, with
Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss Rose's surgery and recuperation.
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Charlie Rose official site of the show
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Bloomberg - Charlie Rose Show*
Download episodes of the Charlie Rose Show at Google Video*
Charlie Rose @ Audible.com*
Charlie Rose biography*
60 Minutes II profile
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Citadel Broadcasting Board Profile*
FAIR,
Fear & Favor 2003: How power shapes the news,
Extra!, March/April 2003
