A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winners: Three News Breakers on the Unraveling of Platner’s Candidacy
JULY 2026 - Three pieces this month - first by Politico, then by the NYT and the WSJ - were out front on the revelation that Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner allegedly sexually assaulted a...
Rosebud Winner: Politico Sends (At Least Some) Reporters to NATO Summit
JULY 2026 - Three journalists for Politico - Pentagon beat-reporter Paul McLeary, Victor Jack and White House Correspondent Dasha Burns - teamed up on a quick -turnaround piece last week on the NATO...
Rosebud Winner: Columnist Megan McArdle Examines the Left’s Misreading on Trans Athletes
JULY 2026 - Politically moderate WaPo columnist Megan McArdle took a look at the recent Supreme Court decision that reaffirmed Trump's 2025 executive order barring trans athletes from competing in...
Rosebud Winner: Rick Reilly Captures the Ranch-Dressing Flavor of the World Cup
JULY 2026 - Veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly, who in recent years gets his witty prose onto Washington Post screens, wrote a cheerful essay on suddenly being proud of America because - you knew it -...
Rosebud Winner: An Example of Excellent Daily Reporting by a Foreign Correspondent
JULY 2026 - Ukraine-born Yaroslav Trofimov is chief foreign affairs correspondent at the WSJ, and his June 3 report on the Russian elite souring on the Ukraine war is an example of excellent...
Rosebud Winner: This July 4th, Maureen Dowd, With Help from Chernow, Compares Presidents #1 and #47
JULY 2026 - Two-time Rosebud winner Maureen Dowd is a DC native, and sometimes those roots show up in her copy. Like her piece Saturday - the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of...
Rosebud Winner: Mr. Steady and Reliable Fareed Zakaria Has His Own Take on Trump Attack on Expertise
JULY 2026 - This piece is still being promoted - seven months later - by The Washington Post, and it still echoes of many of the themes that pundit Washington recognizes in Trump's second term. The...
Rosebud Winner: Robert Doar, High Profile Pundit in DC, Does Some On-the-Ground Reporting in Ukraine
JUNE 2026 - Robert Doar is president of the American Enterprise Institute, so he's both pressured and invited to publish his views with some professional regularity. Recently he made a trip to...
Rosebud Winner: NYT Art Critic Holland Cotter Writes Sweeping Obit of The Legendary David Hockney
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...
Rosebud Winner: SF Chronicle Examines the Meteoric Rise of Indian-American Communities in the Bay Area
JUNE 2026 - You have to be a subscriber to SFChronicle.com to access it, but a May 26 report on the growth of the Indian American community in the Bay Area is well worth a read - and a worthy...