More accuse Rose of sexual misconduct

Fired CBS News anchor Charlie Rose’s sexual misconduct was widespread and occurred over decades, according to an investigation published Thursday in The Washington Post.

The report alleges that three CBS News executives were made aware of Rose’s conduct. But CBS News said its human resources department never received a harassment complaint about Rose until after his termination in November.

Rose, 76, was fired from “CBS This Morning” and “60 Minutes” after eight women who worked at his PBS talk show told the Post that he had groped them, exposed himself or spoken to them inappropriately. PBS also canceled the nightly talk show, “Charlie Rose.”

The new Post report has 27 women, including 14 who worked at CBS News, alleging they were harassed by Rose. Rose is accused in one incident of exposing his penis and touching the breasts of a co-worker at the Washington bureau of NBC News where they worked in 1976.

Rose’s email response to the new allegations said: “Your story is unfair and inaccurate.” Rose

CBS News said in a statement that it “could not corroborate or confirm” the accounts in the Post story. The news division said it has stepped up efforts to deal with inappropriate workplace behavior.

The incidents alleged to have happened at CBS range from 1986, when Rose was an anchor on the overnight program “Nightwatch,” to 2017 at “60 Minutes.” Most of the accounts are from unnamed sources who said they feared retribution for speaking out.

The story does quote Sophie Gayter, a former “60 Minutes” employee, who said Rose grabbed her buttocks as she walked down the hallway of the newsmagazine’s office in 2013.