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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Eli's mom, Stephanie, says she wasn't shocked when Eli told her she was a girl. There had been signs that Eli was transgender. And even though she knew… -
In the past year, various states have taken up the questions transgender kids face when they come out in school. What bathrooms to use, where to get… -
Baltimore City high school graduates are on track to receive more college scholarships this year than any other year, according to Rudy Ruiz, the… -
In this Reveal/WYPR collaboration, we look at two cases of running from cops that reveal some truths about the intersection of policing and the… -
After months of negotiations, Baltimore police and the U.S. Justice Department reached an agreement on a roadmap to police reform. But now, Justice… -
An auto mechanic in Baltimore wanted to unload his car repair shop after decades of work. But instead of selling it, he donated it to a nonprofit that will use the shop to teach budding mechanics. -
Shortly after the Justice Department and Baltimore City officials announced they’d reached a legal contract to reform the city police department Thursday… -
EDITOR'S NOTE: Read the full consent decree below.Baltimore City and federal officials announced Thursday an agreement that will force the Baltimore…
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In 2001, as the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and the Black United Front brought a federal lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati and the police… -
The Department of Justice’s 163 page report describes officers and sergeants acting as if they had a blank check to do whatever they wanted in the inner…
