Mary Rose Madden
Senior News Producer and ReporterMary Rose is a reporter and senior news producer for 88.1 WYPR FM, a National Public Radio member station in Baltimore. At the local news desk, she assigns stories, organizes special coverage, edits news stories, develops series and reports.
She’s written for award-winning series such as "Growing up Baltimore," "Baltimore '68: The Fire Last Time," as well as “On the Watch: Fixing the Fractured Relationship Between Baltimore’s Police and Its Communities.”
She’s covered stories from the foreclosure crisis to the horse-racing industry, from the alarming high school dropout problem in Baltimore to a traditional college marching band gone hip-hop. She reported on the rights American Indians have – or rather don’t have – to their ancestors’ remains in Maryland. And with this reporting, state legislators signed a law that would change that.
She's reported from Rwanda for The International Reporting Project and won a national award for her story on the children who were born of rape during the 1994 genocide.
She’s filed for the national desk of npr numerous times, the show Marketplace, and reported two investigative longform stories for the award-winning national show and podcast, Reveal.
Before entering journalism, she worked in the social development of children and families and worked in a hospice providing support to families.
She’s a graduate of Loyola University Maryland.
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A bipartisan panel of Maryland lawmakers heard from dozens of residents and legal advocates Thursday who called for police reform measures.Black residents… -
According to Charles Gischlar, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Health, typical turnaround time for COVID-19 test results in Maryland averages… -
Parents are wrestling with the question of whether to send their kid into the classroom this fall, log them on, or come up with Option C.What to do about… -
As school systems throughout Maryland wrestle with questions of how to open in the fall a statewide coalition of educators called on state leaders Tuesday… -
Baltimore City School administrators haven’t made any decisions yet about how classes will be held in the upcoming school year, but they’ve announced some… -
In the midst of Baltimore's sweltering summer heat, the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks offers some relief. Five city pools open on July 13:… -
Next to a dilapidated hundred year old house in Northeast Baltimore, there’s an old rusted tractor that’s twisted in vines, its metal warped. It looks… -
It’s been almost two weeks since Baltimore’s Department of Public Works shut down its curbside recycling program and limited trash collection because of… -
Mayor Jack Young announced today that Baltimore City will enter Phase 2 of re-opening from coronavirus shutdown at 5 p.m. Friday. Religious facilities… -
Joe Kane grew up in East Baltimore with his cousins, aunts and uncles close by. It was the way his grandmother, Phyllis Waters, wanted it.He says she…
