Chris Rose (journalist)

Chris Rose is a New Orleans, Louisiana, writer. For years best known for light-hearted writing in the Times-Picayune, he gained greater attention for his chronicles of the effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans since 2005. He left the paper in late 2009, and joined the New Orleans alternative weekly paper, Gambit Weekly, in mid February 2010. He moved to WVUE Fox News 8 a year later (http://www.fox8live.com/content/entertainment/chris_rose/default.aspx), where he now delivers his pungent commentary on New Orleans life by video and column.

Rose reading at a book signing, August 2007

Rose graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1978 and received a journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982. After a stint as a staff writer at the Washington Post, he joined the Times-Picayune as a crime reporter in 1984. Over the years, he has covered national politics, economics, Southern regionalism, pop culture, and New Orleans nightlife, traditions, lifestyles and entertainment.

Post-Katrina, Rose gained notoriety and accolades as he chronicled the personal and public struggles of the disaster-stricken area.^[1] He returned to the theme in various ways, as in satirizing the 2008-2009 e-mail controversies swelling around New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and Councilwoman Stacy Head.^[2]

Rose is also the author of 1 Dead in Attic, which is a collection of stories recounting the first four harrowing months of life in New Orleans after Katrina. To date^[when?], 1 million copies have been sold^{[citation needed]}. In 2007, a new, expanded edition was published in softcover.

Awards and nominations

Rose was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 2006 and won a Pulitzer for his contributions to the Times-Picayune's Public Service Award. He was a finalist for the 2006 Michael Kelly Award.

Rose reigned as King of the Krewe du Vieux for the 2007 New Orleans Mardi Gras season.

Personal life

Rose is divorced from Kelly Gluth Rose, a native New Orleanian. They have three children: Katherine, Jack and James. The family adopted a dog left homeless by Hurricane Rita and named the dog Luna Biscuit (which, he jokes, is French for Moon Pie). In the 2007 edition of One Dead In Attic Rose revealed that he and his wife had separated.

In October 2006, Rose admitted to taking anti-depressants after suffering from anxiety and depression after Hurricane Katrina.^[3]

Notes

1. ^ Rose's column regularly appears at his New Orleans stories Times-Picayune web site.
2. ^ Rose satirically published fictitious e-mail messages to fellow columnist Sheila Stroup about fellow columnist Angus Lind (Chris Rose, "The Chris Rose e-mails" in Times-Picayune, 2009 May 19, Saint Tammany Edition, p. C1; web version = "Chris Rose releases first e-mail: more to come").
3. ^ Chris Rose, "Hell and Back" in Times-Picayune, 2006 October 22 (accessed 2009 April 11).

See also

• Ed Blakely
• Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson
• Stacy Head
• William J. Jefferson
• Angus Lind
• Shelley Stephenson Midura
• Ray Nagin
• Sheila Stroup
• Tracie Washington
• Veronica White

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