About Rose

Rose L. Thayer is a print and radio journalist based in Austin, Texas. She has covered military and veteran news in the western U.S. for Stars and Stripes since 2018. 

Rose can also be heard providing a military news flash briefing every week on the radio program and podcast Rethinking Heroes. It airs at 9 a.m. Pacific on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles. Listen anytime, anywhere, wherever you get your podcasts. 

Prior to Stars and Stripes, Rose worked as a reporter for Killeen Daily Herald and a freelance journalist for publications including The Alcalde, Texas Highways and the Austin American-Statesman. 

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Rose has earned multiple journalism awards, including a 2021 Society of Professional Journalists Washington Dateline Award, an Honorable Mention from the Military Reporters and Editors Association for her coverage of crime at Fort Hood, and many Texas AP Managing Editors Awards.