Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose (born Charles Peete Rose, Jr. on January 5, 1942) is an American TV interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for 60 Minutes II, he hosts Charlie Rose on PBS, an interview TV show whose broadcast transmits from Channel 13 (WNET), in the New York metropolitan area.

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina as a 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 Democratic 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.

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.