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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Camden County Officer TyrrellBagby is headed to his usual beat, but on the way he sees a man stumbling, about to walk off the curb and into a busy… -
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On the Watch, Part 8: Will New Policies and Alerts at the Baltimore Police Department Bring Changes?Last week, a Baltimore judge found Officer Edward Nero not guilty of reckless endangerment, among other charges, in the death last year of Freddie Gray.… -
?list=PLP8H6KqZTcXRAczEuEe2Y_FnDeQq_1LUkThis video is part of a special WYPR newsroom series entitled "On The Watch: Fixing the Fractured Relationship…
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Since the death of Freddie Gray last April and the protests and unrest that followed Baltimore’s Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has talked about the… -
Even before the riots broke out in Baltimore, tensions were high near the western district police station. The western district is where Freddie Gray... -
Since the unrest in Baltimore a year ago, new police chief Kevin Davis openly criticizes the Baltimore police department's old strategies — and says he wants to police "smarter."
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NewsProtests continued in Baltimore as crowds gathered throughout the city calling for accountability in the death of Freddie Gray , a 25 year old African ... -
NewsBaltimore's homicide rate rose last year while fewer cases were reported solved. In 2015 the homicide rate rose more than 60% from the previous year. I...
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NewsOut of the 327 homicide cases in the city this year, only about 67 of these investigations have been closed. The police need witnesses and information...
