Bill Rose to get Ole Miss’ Samuel S. Talbert Silver Em award
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) – Bill Rose, who for six years has led student reporting for the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, has been selected as the 2015 Samuel S. Talbert Silver Em award recipient.
The award dates to 1958 and is given to Mississippians with notable journalism careers or journalists with notable careers in Mississippi. It is the university’s highest award for journalism, named for a chairman who, as it happens, was one of Rose’s instructors.
After graduating from Ole Miss in 1969, Rose returned to the Delta, working for the Bolivar Commercial in Cleveland and later as a reporter for the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville. In 1975, Rose moved to Florida where he worked for the next 34 years at the Miami Herald.
