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School of Journalism and New Media
University of Mississippi

Bill Rose

Posted on: October 4th, 2010 by

Title: Adjunct Instructor
E-mail: wrose@olemiss.edu
Phone: 662-915-7146

Bill Rose joined the journalism faculty at the University of Mississippi after a 40-year career as a professional journalist. Much of that time was spent with The Miami Herald, where Rose covered city and county government and the governor’s race before going to Atlanta for five years to cover the South. Upon returning to the Miami newsroom, Rose became deputy city editor, then national editor, directing bureaus in Atlanta, Washington and New York as well as coverage of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Atlanta prison riots and national politics. He then became editor of Tropic, The Herald’s Sunday magazine, which won two Pulitzers. Rose closed out his career as managing editor of The Palm Beach Post, where his staff produced two Pulitzer finalists and sent two county commissioners to prison for corruption unearthed by the newspaper. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Rose got his start as a reporter for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, where he covered local government, federal courts and politics. He served as a Pulitzer juror in 2007-2008. Rose won a Green Eyeshade award for coverage of a deadly coal mine disaster in Tennessee, a Paul Hansell FSNE Award for the best work by a Florida newspaper reporter and a Best of Cox award for coverage of Hurricane Lili. Rose runs The Delta Project, a course in which students report on poverty in the Delta and produce magazines documenting their findings.