Rosebud Winner: NYT Art Critic Holland Cotter Writes Sweeping Obit of The Legendary David Hockney

by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jun 19, 2026 | Obituaries & Long Form

JUNE 2026 – The British artist, writer and general creative David Hockney died earlier this month, age 88. And quite naturally dozens of obituaries were sent out by media outlets worldwide. But no obituary quite captured the spirit and life of Hockney quite like...

Rosebud Winner: Bruce Weber, Long Retired from NYT, Explains the Brilliance of the Late Tom Stoppard

by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 2, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form

NOVEMBER 2025 – Anyone who has ever sat through a Tom Stoppard play – all witty and original but dense and abstruse, full of flourishes but often ponderous – can be excused if they felt they were never quite, well, entertained. Stoppard’s works...

Rosebud Winner: David Kirkpatrick of The New Yorker Runs a Tally of Trump’s Ongoing Grift

by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 19, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form

AUGUST 2025 – Veteran journalist David Kirkpatrick of The New York Yorker spent months compiling a voluminous (nearly 4,000 word) report on the myriad self-enrichment activities of Donald Trump and his family since Trump re-took office in January.  Almost all of...

Rosebud Winner: Obituary of a CIA Agent Who Uncovered a Russian Spy

by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 12, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form

AUGUST 2025 – We’ve extolled the virtues of the NYT obit desk, so why stop?  NYT obituaries today have no peer – and last week’s obituary about CIA operative Sandra Grimes, who uncovered the case of turncoat Aldrich (“Rick”) Ames,...

Rosebud Winner: NYT Obit on Bill Moyers Works In the Current, Relevant Idea

by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jun 30, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form

JUNE 2025 – Longtime broadcast journalist Bill Moyers died last week at age 91, and both the Washington Post and the NYT came out – on the same day as his death – with lengthy and robustly textured obituaries of him. Obits of course are hardly...