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University of Mississippi eGrove University of Mississippi News 3-29-2016 Rose Selected for Silver Em Honor Jon Scott Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews Recommended Citation Scott, Jon, "Rose Selected for Silver Em Honor" (2016). University of Mississippi News. 4424. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umnews/4424 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Mississippi News by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact egrove@olemiss.edu. Search this website … SearchBill RoseRose Selected for Silver Em HonorUM's highest award for journalism to be presented April 6MARCH 29, 2016 BY JON SCOTTOXFORD, Miss. – Bill Rose, who for six years has led studentreporting ventures for the Meek School of Journalism and NewMedia at the University of Mississippi, has been selected as theSamuel S. Talbert Silver Em award recipient for 2015.The award dates to 1958. Recipients must be Mississippians withnotable journalism careers or journalists with notable careers inMississippi – or both, which is the case with Rose, who was bornand grew up in Shelby. It is the university’s highest award forjournalism, named for a chairman who, as it happens, was one ofRose’s instructors.“Bill Rose is an exceptional talent who has spent much of hiscareer writing with exceptional clarity and helping others writewell,” said Will Norton Jr., dean of the Meek School of Journalismand New Media. “The Meek School has been blessed to have aperson of his talent and self-effacing integrity teaching ourstudents.”After graduating from Ole Miss in 1969, Rose returned to the Delta, working for the Bolivar Commercialin Cleveland and later as a reporter for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville. During this time, he wasalso a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves in Greenwood.In 1975, Rose moved to Florida, where he worked for the next 34 years. As a Miami Herald reporter, heexposed a garbage scandal that led to a grand jury investigation of organized crime’s influence on PalmBeach County government.His next role was as chief of the Atlanta bureau, responsible for the coverage of several major stories inthe South, including the Atlanta child murders. There, he won the Paul Hansell Award for the best workby a Florida journalist, for a collection of stories about the South: everything from possum rustlers torace riots to rock-ribbed gubernatorial politics. He also covered presidential politics across the South.For the next five years, he rose through the ranks of day city editor, urban affairs editor, deputy cityeditor and national editor before becoming editor of Tropic, the Herald’s Sunday magazine, which wontwo Pulitzers during his tenure.Rose moved to the positions of metro editor of The Palm Beach Post, then deputy managing editor andeventually managing editor of the 220-person staff from 2004 until 2009. During that time, he formed aninvestigative unit that led to indictment and prison sentences for several local officials. The Post alsoreceived two Robert F. Kennedy Awards for exposing migrant slavery abuses that forced changes instate law.His transition to the university has been as a visiting professor in the Meek School as well as a fellow ofthe Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.“Bill Rose has had so many dream jobs in journalism and did them superbly,” said Charles Overby, forwhom the center is named. “He is the master at blending excellence, high expectations and affability. Iwas privileged to work with him while we were students on the Daily Mississippian nearly 50 years ago,and I am blessed to work with him today at the Overby Center.”Since the school was founded in 2009, Rose has led six Depth Reporting classes, resulting in sixpublications on topics ranging from the declining population of Greenville to the effect of the VotingRights Act in the Mississippi Delta. One of the magazines, “The Roads of Broken Dreams,” received theRobert F. Kennedy Award for college journalism. Student work in another received a Hearst Prize, whichis the college equivalent of a Pulitzer.“Bill Rose distinguished himself as a top-notch reporter and editor at the Miami Herald and the PalmRead the story …Read the story …Follow us on socialCampus BriefsCivil Engineering Professor ReceivesMost-Cited Paper AwardOXFORD, Miss. – Peer recognition is arewarding experience for anyone, butUniversity of Mississippi researcher AmirMehrara Molan was elated when an articlehe co-authored recently received the MostCited Paper Award at the102nd Transportation Research Boardmeeting in the nation’s capital. TheInternational Journal of TransportationScience and Technology presented the civilengineeringMore Posts from this CategoryThank You To OurDonorsYoung Alumna Gives Back to Schoolof AccountancyOXFORD, Miss. – Stephanie JenningsTeague, of Chicago, sees her commitmentof $100,000 to the Patterson School ofAccountancy‘s new building at theUniversity of Mississippi as a means ofsaying “thank you.” “It is a way to show asmall token of my appreciation to OleMiss, the faculty and staff, and theaccountingMore Posts from this CategoryOle Miss In the NewsReuters: Keep an Eye on the MoneySupplyU.S. inflation roller coaster prompts freshlook at long-ignored money supply ByMichael S. Derby NEW YORK – Theamount of money sloshing around the U.S.economy shrank last year for the first timeon record, a development that someeconomists believe bolsters the case forU.S. inflation pressures continuing toNews Releases UM COVID-19 Video Gallery University Communications Ole Miss Homepage Ole Miss News BlogFacebookTwitterLin edInEmailCopyLinkSMSPrintFriendlySharFacebookTwitterInstagramLinkedInYouTubeChannelBeach Post, and continues to contribute to journalism today through his leadership with the award-winning, depth-reporting magazines produced by his Ole Miss students,” said Curtis Wilkie, seniorOverby Fellow who also worked in the Mississippi Delta before a national and international career injournalism, mostly with The Boston Globe.Rose’s wife, Susan, is also an Ole Miss graduate. They have two children and two grandchildren.The Silver Em, which is the university’s highest award for journalism, will be presented at an April 6banquet in the Overby Center at Ole Miss, starting at 6:30 p.m. Seating is limited, but reservationsmay be made by contacting Paula Hurdle at 662-915-7146 or pchurdle@olemiss.edu.The Meek School of Journalism and New Media was founded in 2009, funded with an endowment gift byEd and Becky Meek. It offers bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in both journalism andintegrated marketing communications on the Oxford campus and in coordination with satellitecampuses. Because of the increasing variety of media careers, enrollment continues to rise in the MeekSchool, where almost 1,400 undergraduate journalism and IMC majors hone their skills. PREVIOUS SILVER EM HONOREES1958 – George W. Healy Jr.1959 – Turner Catledge1960 – Kenneth Toler1961 – John Oliver Emmerich1963 – George McLean1964 – William B. Street1965 – Purser Hewitt1966 – Hal C. DeCell1967 – Paul Pittman1968 – Hodding Carter Jr.1969 – Willie Morris1970 – T.M. Hederman Jr.1971 – Joseph R. Ellis1972 – Wilson F. Minor1973 – Mark F. Ethridge1975 – H.L. Stevenson1976 – William Raspberry1977 – Joe L. Albritton1978 – James A. Autry1979 – James Nelson1980 – Mary-Lynn Kotz1981 – Curtis Wilkie1982 – Harold Burson1983 – John O. Emmerich1984 – Hazel Brannon Smith1985 – Charles Overby1986 – W.C. “Dub” Shoemaker1987 – Charles Dunagin (2)– Larry Speakes (2)Read the story …abate. The Federal Reserve’sMore Posts from this Category1988 – Edward Fritts1989 – Rudy Abramson1990 – Hodding Carter III1991 – James L. 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