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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, 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 procedure. 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.

Rose is sometimes criticized for going too easy on his guests, with the suggestion that this is how he gets them to appear on the show. In the June 24, 2001 New York Times Magazine, Fox News Channel executive Roger Ailes said he had received written assurance from Rose that he would not be asked about politics during his interview. The Coca-Cola Company is the primary sponsor of The Charlie Rose Show (paying a "six or possibly seven figure" sum, according to the Washington Post) and Rose has often done promotions for the company. Hosting the 2002 shareholders meeting, he said "Few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is" and "it is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time." (audio, aired on Le Show)

Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the Washington Post reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions since, among other reasons, he was only paid a "minimal" sum. Rose insists he "would never do a story on 60 Minutes II about anybody who underwrites my PBS show."

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