Rob Rose (South African journalist)

Rob Rose
Alma materUniversity of the Witwatersrand
OccupationInvestigative journalist
Years active2000–present
Awards

Rob Rose is a South African business journalist who was editor of the Financial Mail between 2016 and 2024. A two-time winner of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism for his investigative reporting on corruption, he is currently a writer at Currency.

Career in journalism

Rose studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he completed a BA in 1995 and an LLB in 2000.[1] While a law student, he worked briefly at Engineering News, and, after graduating, he decided to pursue a career in journalism only a few weeks into his articles.[1][2] Beginning at I-Net Bridge, he went on to work as a business journalist at Business Day from 2002 to 2007, when he joined the Financial Mail as a banking writer.[3][4]

Subsequently Rose joined the investigative reporting team at the Sunday Times, where he, Stephan Hofstatter, and Mzilikazi wa Afrika co-wrote a series of award-winning articles between 2011 and 2013.[5] Hofstatter and wa Afrika's team was later criticized for reporting fake news, including in one exposé which Rose had co-written about extrajudicial police killings by the so-called Cato Manor "death squad."[6][7] The Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism panel rescinded the runner-up award that the death squad story had received, describing the reporting as "shoddy and amateurish,"[8] and the Sunday Times voluntarily returned the story's other awards, including several Sikuvile (Mondi Shanduka) Journalism Awards.[9][10]

After a stint as editor of the Sunday Times's Business Times from 2013,[4] Rose returned to the Financial Mail in 2015. He was deputy editor of the Financial Mail under editor Tim Cohen, and he replaced Cohen as editor in 2016.[11] He led the magazine for eight years before resigning at the end of January 2024.[12][13] Thereafter he joined Currency, a new financial news publication that launched in September 2024.[14][15] He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.[16]

Books

Rose's first book, The Grand Scam: How Barry Tannenbaum Conned South Africa's Business Elite, was published in 2014 by Zebra Press and investigated Barry Tannenbaum's corporate fraud, a story which Rose had broken at the Financial Mail in June 2009.[17][18]

His second book, Steinheist: Markus Jooste, Steinhoff and SA's Biggest Corporate Fraud, covered Markus Jooste and the Steinhoff scandal.[19] Published in 2018 by NB Publishers, it won the Recht Malan Prize at the 2019 Media24 Books Literary Awards.[20] It was adapted into a docuseries of the same name, featuring interviews with Rose, which premiered on Showmax in 2022.[21]

Other awards

Rose received the 2009 Taco Kuiper Award for his reporting on the Tannenbaum fraud,[22] and he, Hofstatter, and wa Afrika shared the 2011 Taco Kuiper Award for their Sunday Times reporting on corruption by Mac Maharaj's associates.[23]

At the Sanlam Financial Journalism Awards, Rose was named Financial Journalist of the Year four times, in 2010,[24] 2016,[25][26] 2019,[27] and 2023.[28]

He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2011.[29]

References

  1. ^ a b Minors, Deborah (21 May 2012). "Rose tackles thorny issue of corruption". Wits University. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  2. ^ "20 Questions with… Rob Rose". The Media Online. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  3. ^ Rose, Rob (1 February 2024). "Editor's Note: Press still a beacon, but a fragile one, in South Africa". Financial Mail. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  4. ^ a b "All the media moves". The Media Online. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  5. ^ "All the media moves". The Media Online. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  6. ^ Siqoko, Bongani (14 October 2018). "We got it wrong, and for that we apologise". Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 17 February 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  7. ^ Pauw, Jacques (16 October 2018). "Exposing the puppet masters behind the Sunday Times scandal". News24. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Sunday Times stripped of journalism award for Cato Manor 'death squad' reporting". The Mail & Guardian. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Award organisers caught by surprise as Sunday Times returns prizes for false reports". News24. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Sunday Times journalists scoop top awards". Sunday Times. 2 September 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Times Media appoints three new editors". Sunday Times. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Financial Mail editor Rob Rose resigns". Business Day. 28 January 2024. Archived from the original on 28 January 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Financial Mail editor Rob Rose resigns". Sunday Times. 28 January 2024. Archived from the original on 29 January 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Rob Rose and Giulietta Talevi's new financial publication unveiled". Daily Investor. 9 July 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  15. ^ Jordaan, Lucinda (17 December 2024). "Banking on great journalism". The Media Online. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  16. ^ "Rob Rose". ICIJ. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  17. ^ Charalambous, Styli (6 January 2014). "Book review: The Grand Scam by Rob Rose – how the Tannenbaums and Madoffs get away with it". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  18. ^ "Book review – Rose among the thorns". News24. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  19. ^ "Rob Rose's Steinheist exposes the greed, plunder and betrayal behind the Steinhoff crash". Sunday Times. 13 January 2019. Archived from the original on 8 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  20. ^ "Winners of 2019 Media24 Books Literary Prizes announced". Sunday Times. 13 June 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  21. ^ Shapiro, Tevya Turok (23 September 2022). "Steinheist — unpacking the biggest corporate scam in SA history". Daily Maverick. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  22. ^ "Fraudster articles win 2009 Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism". Bizcommunity. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  23. ^ "Sunday Times team wins journalism award". Sunday Times. 1 April 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  24. ^ "Sanlam Financial Journo awards winners". Bizcommunity. 2 June 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  25. ^ "Rob Rose is Sanlam Financial Journalist of the Year". Bizcommunity. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  26. ^ "Rob Rose Sanlam Financial Journalist of 2015". Sanlam. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  27. ^ "Financial Mail editor wins big at Sanlam financial journalist awards". Sunday Times. 26 June 2019. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  28. ^ "Rob Rose wins 2023 Sanlam Group Financial Journalist of the Year award". Santam. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  29. ^ "Nieman Foundation announces Nieman Fellows in Class of 2011". Nieman Foundation. 26 May 2010. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
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