Judd Rose; Co-Anchor on CNN Shows and Former ABC Correspondent

Judd Rose, 45, nationally known television correspondent for ABC and CNN who began his career at Los Angeles stations. Rose, most recently co-anchor of “CNN NewsStand” and “CNN & Entertainment Weekly,” had shared his battle with brain cancer since it was first diagnosed in 1996. Early in his career, Rose wrote for and then worked on microphone and camera for Los Angeles radio stations KHJ and KFWB and television stations KNBC and KABC. He also worked with Associated Press Radio in New York and Washington, D.C. Rose joined CNN in 1998 after nine years as a correspondent for ABC’s “PrimeTime Live” and contributor to “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight” and “Turning Point.” He won four Emmys, including one for his coverage of the fall of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and another for his work covering the funeral of Britain’s Princess Diana. During the Gulf War, Rose reported from Saudi Arabia, focusing on American search-and-rescue missions in Iraqi territory and on media restrictions. Among his other stories were sexual harassment charges in the Los Angeles Police Department and the police beating of Rodney King. Known for not toadying to entertainment celebrities, Rose described his own reporting style as “an oaf in paradise” and “an anti-’E.T.’ reporter.” He so angered some entertainers and executives that he was the target of curses, wine thrown in his face and threats of bodily harm. A furious Disney executive once warned Rose after a lively “PrimeTime Live” interview that the reporter might not walk out of Disney World alive. Rose’s reaction to such threats was always a gleeful, “Great television! My God, I hope the camera’s rolling.” On Saturday in New York of brain cancer.