CHARLIE ROSE

'Charlie Rose' (born January 5, 1942) is an American television interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for ''60 Minutes II'', he hosts the interview show ''Charlie Rose'' for PBS.

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

Personal life

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Rose was born 'Charles Peete Rose, Jr.' in Henderson, North Carolina, the son of Margaret and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store.^[1] As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson, and helped out with the family business from age seven. A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University planning on majoring in pre-med, but an internship in the office of Democrat 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 Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968. Rose also attended New York University Stern School of Business.

Career

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), Rose 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 hired Rose 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 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.
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.

Personal life

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. From 1993 until 2005, his companion was socialite and city planning advocate Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.

References

1. http://www.filmreference.com/film/1/Charlie-Rose.html

External links

★ Charlie Rose Official site of the show

★ 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

★ FAIR, Things Go Better for Rose, ''Extra!'', Update June 2002

★ Transcript: Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft (International Herald Tribune) June 18, 2007