Charlie Rose

Emmy Award-winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised by critics as “one of television’s premier interviewers.” The former CBS News anchor is currently anchor and executive producer of Charlie Rose, a nightly one-hour interview program which is syndicated nationally. Charlie Rose premiered on Thirteen/WNET in New York City on September 30, 1991. Syndicated nationally since 1993, it currently airs on 215 PBS affiliated stations. Rose entered television full-time in 1974 when Public Broadcasting System commentator Bill Moyers hired him as managing editor of the PBS series Bill Moyers’ International Report. The following year, Rose became executive producer for the PBS conversation and documentary series Bill Moyers’ Journal. In 1976 Rose was named correspondent of the new PBS series USA: People and Politics, a weekly political magazine with Moyers. That year, their television special, A Conversation With Jimmy Carter was honored with a Peabody Award. Later in 1976, Rose moved to NBC as a correspondent, based in Washington DC. From then until 1981, Rose hosted a number of Interview programs, including a co-host position with AM/Chicago on WLS-TV, and host of The Charlie Rose Show at KXAS-TV in Dallas/Ft. Worth. In 1981, Rose moved The Charlie Rose Show to Washington, where he also anchored a weekly interview show for WRC-TV, the NBC-owned station. From 1984-1990, Rose anchored CBS’s Nightwatch, the network’s late-night interview series. During that period, he offered in-depth conversations with some of the world’s most interesting people, including Lech Walesa, Helmut Kohl, Saul Bellow and Woody Allen, and traveled extensively to secure interviews with world leaders, literary figures, Nobel Prize-winners and entertainers. His interviews with convicted murdered Charles Manson won an Emmy.