Charlie Rose formerly substituted for the anchor of the CBS Evening News.
20 Facts About Charlie Rose
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Charlie Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child of Margaret and Charles Peete Charlie Rose Sr.
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Charlie Rose said in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child, his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble.
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Charlie Rose earned a JD from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.
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Charlie Rose met his wife, Mary, while attending Duke.
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Charlie Rose's "break" came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired him as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report.
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In 1990, Charlie 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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In 1994, Charlie Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg LP, which allowed for high-definition video via satellite-remote interviews.
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Charlie Rose was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was named a correspondent on 60 Minutes in 2008.
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Charlie Rose was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.
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In 2009, Charlie 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.
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Charlie Rose was awarded the 2014 Vincent Scully Prize by the National Building Museum.
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Charlie 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.
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Charlie Rose was married to Mary Charlie Rose from 1968 until their divorce in 1980.
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Charlie Rose's surgery was performed under the supervision of Alain Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure.
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Charlie Rose returned to the air on June 12,2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega, to discuss his surgery and recuperation.
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Charlie Rose owns a large house in Henderson, North Carolina, a 5,500-square-foot beach home in Bellport, New York, and an apartment in The Sherry-Netherland of New York City, each worth several million dollars.
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Charlie Rose is a member of the Deepdale Golf Club on Long Island and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Charlie Rose's firing as a co-anchor on CBS This Morning was covered by CBS, the day after the report was published.
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Charlie Rose was sued for verbal harassment by Gina Riggi, his former makeup artist of 20 years.