by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Feb 25, 2026 | Worth Noting
FEBRUARY 2026 – David Brooks has crafted so many columns in recent years on America’s moral and spiritual decline that his final so-long piece in the NYT on Jan. 30 felt a bit like a re-write, except longer and more anxious than usual. After more than 25...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jan 19, 2026 | Worth Noting
JANUARY 2026 – NYT White House correspondent Tyler Pager, after reading reports of an overnight military action in Venezuela on Jan. 3, made a direct phone call to Donald Trump at 4:30 that morning. And the President picked up and spoke to him for a minute. In...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 4, 2025 | Worth Noting
DECEMBER 2025 – It feels as though John Bolton is on the lam – the one-time Trump national security advisor was indicted in mid October for allegedly mishandling classified information, and since then most of the US op-ed pages have shunned him. For years...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Sep 8, 2025 | Worth Noting
SEPTEMBER 2025 – It’s easy to still be awed by Nvidia’s chips and Open AI’s ChatGPT but the overall role of Artificial Intelligence – in our free society, or any other – remains a mystery. After all AI bots today engage in ongoing...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 5, 2025 | Worth Noting
AUGUST 2025 – Washington may be a mess, and Trump’s authoritarianism may have the upper hand right now, but we get reminders that clearly articulated facts still rule. No matter who writes them. A recent op-ed in the NYT by two Obama intelligence officials...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jul 22, 2025 | Worth Noting
JULY 2025 – Instagram, Facebook, Youtube and TikTok are our sources of popcorn these days, so we’re usually not scoping around those parts in search of exemplary journalism. But given these times – vulgarity, superficiality and. in our political...