Charlie Rose

Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942)<ref name=biography.com>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is an American journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg LP. On the show, he interviewed writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, intellectuals, and fellow journalists. The show was known for its distinguished stature and intellectual tone.

Rose also co-anchored CBS This Morning from 2012 to 2017 alongside Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell, where he interviewed many celebrities, institutional leaders, and political figures. Rose formerly substituted for the anchor of the CBS Evening News. In 2012, Rose, along with Lara Logan, hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.<ref name="CBS-Person-to-Person-2012-02-08">Template:Cite news</ref> Since 2022, Rose has hosted the online interviews Charlie Rose Conversations on his personal website.<ref name="CRC1" /><ref name="CRC2" /><ref name="CRC3" /> Rose occasionally appeared in films and television shows including Breaking Bad and House of Cards.

In November 2017, Rose was fired from PBS, Bloomberg, and CBS after The Washington Post published multiple in-house allegations of sexual misconduct from the late 1990s to 2011. Rose responded to those allegations by admitting to having behaved insensitively at times but did not believe that all of the allegations were accurate, and later suggested women were exploiting the #MeToo campaign.<ref name="lat">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The allegations led to Rose being stripped of several awards and honors. In November 2024, the sexual harassment lawsuit ended with a settlement in which the plaintiffs acknowledged there was no ill intent on the part of Rose for his conduct.<ref name=":1" />

Early life and education

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina,<ref name=biography.com/> the only child<ref name=fortune/> of Margaret (née Frazier) and Charles Peete Rose Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store.<ref name=vf>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson, and helped out with the family business from age seven.<ref name="bloom">Charlie Rose biography from Bloomberg News</ref> In a Fresh Dialogues interview, Rose related that as a child, his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble.<ref name="van Diggelen">Template:Cite news</ref>

A high school basketball star at Henderson High School,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree in a pre-med track. However, he became interested in politics during an internship at the office of North Carolina's democratic Senator B. Everett Jordan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rose graduated in 1964 with a B.A. in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. Rose stayed at Duke to earn a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.<ref name="bloom"/> While attending Duke, Rose met his first wife, Mary (née King). <ref name=fortune>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=vf/>

Career

Rose in Washington, D.C. in 2000

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 working at New York bank Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. Rose's "break" came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired him as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers appointed him as executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal. Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter", which aired on Moyers's TV series U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976 Peabody Award. He then worked at several networks honing his interview skills, until NBC affiliate KXAS-TV in Dallas–Fort Worth hired him as program manager and provided the late-night time slot that became The Charlie Rose Show.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

CBS News

Rose worked for CBS News from 1984 to 1990 as the anchor of CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast, which often featured him doing interviews with notable people in a format similar to that of his later PBS show. The Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 1987.<ref name=vf/><ref>Template:Cite web Two winners: "Charles Manson" segment, The CBS News Nightwatch (March 7, 1986, CBS), Carol Ross Joynt, producer, Charlies [sic] Rose, reporter/correspondent; A Promise (1986, NBC), Mike Mosher, producer, Lucky Severson, correspondent.</ref> In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of Personalities, a Fox TV-produced syndicated program, but six weeks into production and unhappy with the show's soundbite-driven populist tabloid-journalism approach to stories, he left.

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Rose at the premiere of Whatever Works at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

On September 30, 1991, Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET and was nationally fed on PBS beginning in January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg LP, which allowed for high-definition video via satellite-remote interviews.<ref>Charlie RoseTemplate:Dead link, Bloomberg News</ref> On the show, he interviewed thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, and fellow newsmakers. The show was known for its distinguished stature and intellectual tone. Barack Obama made 11 appearances on the show as a senator, presidential candidate, and as president.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Other former presidents who appeared on the program include Jimmy Carter,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> George H. W. Bush,<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Bill Clinton,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and George W. Bush.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Donald Trump appeared on the program as a citizen but not as president.

Filmmakers who appeared on the show included Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Sydney Pollack, Quentin Tarantino, Brian de Palma, Oliver Stone, Roman Polanski, Tim Burton, Sidney Lumet, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Guillermo del Toro,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Peter Jackson, Wes Anderson, Ron Howard, George Lucas, Peter Bogdanovich, Mike Nichols, Sofia Coppola, Spike Lee, and Noah Baumbach.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Comedians who appeared on the show included George Carlin, Louis C.K., Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Joan Rivers, Jon Stewart, Aziz Ansari, Bill Murray, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, John Oliver, and Key & Peele.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rose also hosted a variety of film critics including Roger Ebert, Janet Maslin, Stanley Kauffmann, Richard Corliss, Richard Schickel, David Denby, Andrew Sarris, and A. O. Scott.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Guest hosts included A. O. Scott, Judd Apatow, Seth Meyers, Anthony Mason, Jon Meacham, Katie Couric, and Molly Haskell.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The show ran a total of 26 years from 1991 to 2017.

60 Minutes

Rose was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II<ref>60 Minutes II profile from CBS News</ref> from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was named a correspondent on 60 Minutes in 2008.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=CBS>Template:Cite news</ref> When asked what makes a good interviewee Rose responded, "[it] is somebody who wants to engage and who views it as an opportunity to express their ideas, to have their ideas tested, to listen to the questions and to be as responsive to the questions as they can. Someone who is spontaneous, authentic, engaged, and passionate. That's the kind of person that'll give you a good interview."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

For 60 Minutes Rose has interviewed such people as Russian President Vladimir Putin, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Apple Inc. business executive Tim Cook, political strategist Steve Bannon, comedian Larry David, stage actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, and actor Sean Penn.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

He was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.<ref name=fortune/> In May 2010, he delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

CBS This Morning

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor CBS This Morning, replacing The Early Show, commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Gayle King and Erica Hill.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In July 2012, Norah O'Donnell replaced Hill on the program. The show received high ratings due to their chemistry.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Rose interviews President Barack Obama in 2013.

Rose interviewed many celebrities, institutional leaders, and political figures, including Donald Trump (1992);<ref>Template:YouTube</ref> Bill Gates (1996);<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Steve Jobs (1996);<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Sean Penn (2008 & 2016);<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (2013),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> for which he won a second Peabody Award;<ref>73rd Annual Peabody Awards May 2014.</ref> U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle (2012); U.S. business magnate Warren Buffett;<ref>Template:YouTube</ref> David Rockefeller; MIT Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky (2003); actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio (2004); comedians Louis C.K. and George Carlin; actor Christoph Waltz; director Quentin Tarantino; actor Bradley Cooper; Larry Ellison, the co-founder and then CEO of Oracle Corporation; former Iranian empress Farah Pahlavi;<ref>Template:YouTube</ref> Vladimir Putin (2015);<ref>Template:YouTube</ref> and tennis champion Maria Sharapova.<ref>Template:CitationTemplate:Cbignore</ref>

Charlie Rose Conversations

On April 14, 2022, in his first public appearance since 2017, when multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, Rose released an interview with billionaire Warren Buffett. The interview was uploaded to his own personal website and is listed as the first in a series called Charlie Rose Conversations.<ref name="CRC1">Template:Citation</ref><ref name="CRC2">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="CRC3">Template:Cite web</ref> Subsequent episodes have included interviews with Thomas Friedman, Ray Dalio, Fatima Gailani, Isabella Rossellini, David Petraeus, and others.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Other television appearances

Rose made a cameo appearance on the TV series Breaking Bad in the penultimate episode, "Granite State" (season 5, episode 15, first broadcast September 22, 2013). Rose is seen on TV interviewing the characters Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which is watched by the character Walter White.Template:Citation needed

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Refh
1998	Primary Colors	Himself
2006	The Da Vinci Code	Book signing party guest	Uncredited
2008	Elegy	Himself
2011	The Ides of March	Himself
2014	Top Five	Himself
2015	Louder Than Bombs	Himself
2016	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Himself

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Refh
2000	The Simpsons	Himself	Episode: "Kill the Alligator and Run"
2013	Breaking Bad	Himself	Episode: "Granite State"
2013	The Good Wife	Himself	Episode: "A More Perfect Union"
2017	House of Cards	Himself	Episode: "Chapter 53"

Rose and his show were parodied in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and in the first episode of BoJack Horseman in 2014.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Influence

In 2009, Rose encouraged a discussion between the leaders of NBC and Fox News that eventually led to a mutual reduction in ad hominem attacks between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly on their respective news programs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and honors

Rose at the Peabody Awards in 2014

Rose was awarded the 2014 Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum.<ref name="auto">Template:Cite news</ref> The prize is awarded for "exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design" according to the Museum.<ref name="National Building Museum – Awards">"Awards" - National Building Museum. Retrieved November 8, 2018.</ref> The award to Rose was stated as being due to his having "interviewed leaders of architecture and design and led 'insightful and substantive conversations' about the growth of cities and urban development."<ref name="auto" />

Amanda Burden, a former director of the New York City Department of City Planning, who was in a relationship with him from 1993 to 2006, spoke at the award ceremony in November 2014. Rose received an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York at Oswego on October 16, 2014, during the college's annual Lewis B. O'Donnell Media Summit, for his contributions in the broadcast, media, and television industries.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2016, Duke University awarded him an honorary degree.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The sexual misconduct allegations against Rose in 2017 led to him being stripped of his several awards and honors, as had happened to Bill Cosby amid his own sexual misconduct cases. On May 8, 2016, he received an honorary degree from Sewanee: The University of the South.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> There were, however, calls for Sewanee officials to strip Rose of the degree,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and, as of March 21, 2018, all honors from Sewanee have been rescinded.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The State University of New York at Oswego Board of Trustees voted to revoke Rose's honorary degree on January 23, 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

On November 21, 2017, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre rescinded a planned award to Rose. The Diocese was set to honor him as a "leader in broadcast media".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Three days later, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism given to him in 2015 was rescinded<ref name="ksaz">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On the same day, officials at University of Kansas's School of Journalism and Mass Communications rescinded the National Citation Award it gave to Rose in 2017.<ref name="ksaz" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On December 4, 2017, officials at Duke University's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy rescinded the Futrell Award it gave him in September 2000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The award is given to outstanding Duke graduates who work in journalism.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Montclair State University officials were considering whether to revoke the honorary doctorate it gave to him in 2002.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The National Building Museum has made no public announcement on whether the 2014 Vincent Scully Prize has been withdrawn from Rose, but his name no longer appears on the list of winners on the organisation's website.<ref name="National Building Museum – Awards" />

Officials at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media considered the fate of Rose's 1999 induction into the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> School officials ultimately decided to keep him in the Hall of Fame, while amending his Hall of Fame biography to include details of the sexual misconduct allegations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

Rose with Amanda Burden in 2010

Rose was married to Mary Rose (née King) from 1968 until their divorce in 1980.<ref name=biography.com/> In 1992, he began dating socialite and former New York City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2011, he told a Financial Times reporter that he and Burden had stopped dating around 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, he 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 Alain Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Rose returned to the air on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss his surgery and recuperation. In February 2017, he announced he would undergo another surgery to replace the same valve.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rose owns a large house<ref name=fortune/> in Henderson, North Carolina,<ref name="Bennett">Abbie Bennett, NC native, journalist Charlie Rose latest to face sexual harassment allegations, News & Observer (November 20, 2017).</ref> a 5,500-square-foot (465-square-meter) beach house in Bellport, New York, and an apartment in The Sherry-Netherland of New York City, each worth several million dollars.<ref name=fortune/> Rose also owns apartments in Washington, D.C., and Paris.<ref name="Bennett"/> In 1990,<ref name="Bennett"/> he purchased a 525-acre (212-ha) soybean farm near Oxford, North Carolina, for use as a country retreat.<ref>Barbara Kantrowitz, The Bloom Is on the Rose, Newsweek (January 3, 1993).</ref><ref name="Shister">Gail Shister, Charlie Rose Enjoys the Life of a Gentleman Farmer, but Misses TV, Tulsa World (January 20, 1991).</ref> He named the property Grassy Creek Farm.<ref name="Shister"/>

Rose is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He is also a member of the Deepdale Golf Club on Long Island.<ref name=fortune/>

Sexual misconduct allegations

On November 20, 2017, eight women who were employees of, or aspired to work for, Rose accused him of various acts of sexual misconduct including harassment, groping, and making lewd phone calls. Those accusations, which started amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases and Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations and made in a report in The Washington Post, dealt with conduct from the late 1990s to 2011. On the day the article on the women's statements was published, PBS and Bloomberg LP suspended distribution of his show, and CBS announced that it was suspending the broadcaster pending an investigation.<ref name="WaPoStatement">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="nytimes20171120">Template:Cite news</ref> CBS, PBS, and Bloomberg formally cut ties with him the following day.<ref>Brian Stelter & Tom Kludt, "CBS News and PBS fire Charlie Rose", CNN Money (November 21, 2017).</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="nytimes20171122">Template:Cite news</ref> Rose issued a statement:

In May 2018, 27 more women accused him of sexual harassment, including groping and suggestive comments. This brought the total number of women who have accused him of abusive behavior and sexual harassment to 35.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> On August 31, 2018, he filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that was filed by three women on May 4, 2018, suggesting the women were exploiting the #MeToo campaign.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2019, Rose was sued for verbal harassment by Gina Riggi, his former makeup artist of 20 years.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Rose's firing as a co-anchor on CBS This Morning was covered by CBS, the day after the report was published. His former co-hosts Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell confronted the matter live on air. King stated that she was still "reeling" and "really struggling".<ref name="gaylenorah">Template:Cite news</ref> O'Donnell stated "there is no excuse for this alleged behavior" and both agreed he "does not get a pass here" for his behavior.<ref name="gaylenorah" />

John Dickerson, former host of Face the Nation, replaced Rose as a co-anchor on CBS This Morning,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Christiane Amanpour took over for his roles on PBS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2018, an exposé published by The Hollywood Reporter described his life after being fired as one that is "lonely".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2019, Gayle King stated that she keeps in contact and is still friends with him: "I don't know what his second act is, but Charlie is a very smart guy. There must be room for redemption."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On November 26, 2024, the sexual harassment lawsuit brought by three former CBS This Morning employees in 2018 ended with a settlement.<ref name=":1"/> In settling the lawsuit, the plaintiffs acknowledged there was "no ill intent" on the part of Rose for his conduct.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• New Yorkers in journalism

External links

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