A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: NJ.com’s Riley Yates Reports on a Strangely Obscure Topic – NJ Public Sector Retirement Benefits
APRIL 2026 - New Jersey is a great place - smart people, fair-minded public policy, and a lot of variety of lifestyle. But one area that really is a Garden State head-scratcher is the degree to...
Rosebud Winner: Right Now At Least, Patrick Radden Keefe Is in a League of His Own
APRIL 2026 - The New Yorker's Patrick Radden Keefe, now 50, has long had an approach of reviewing documents first, and engaging in real-world journalism second. The results - authoritative...
Rosebud Winner: Kash on The Barrelhead: The Atlantic Publishes a Risky But Accurate-Sounding Piece on FBI Director
APRIL 2026 - It's only three days since The Atlantic has published "The FBI Director is MIA" and already the report has exploded across the internet and triggered a defamation lawsuit from the...
Rosebud Winner: The LA Times Reports Its City’s Population Decline “Could Haunt Us For Decades”
APRIL 2026 - The Los Angeles Times has a national correspondent based in, of all places, Atlanta. But perhaps that out-of-town perch gave Jenny Jarvie the space and perspective to report on the...
Rosebud Winner: An Immediate, Trenchant Take on The Impact of Orban’s Loss
APRIL 2026 - The people of Hungary spoke last Sunday, and their statement will echo, well, perhaps for eternity. Of the many rapidly produced commentaries on Victor Orban's decisive loss, one - by...
Rosebud Winner: Associated Press Describes Conditions in America’s Largest ICE Detention Facility
MARCH 2026 - A trio of AP reporters, largely by reviewing 911 call recordings, have told what's really going on at the US's largest ICE detention facility, Camp East Montana, which is located in El...
Rosebud Winner: The Atlantic’s Stephanie McCrummen Tries to Figure Out Pam Bondi
MARCH 2026 - Pam Bondi wasn't always a fire-spewing defender of Donald Trump. Before she landed the top legal job in America - Attorney General of the US Department of Justice - she was a normal,...
Rosebud Winner: NYT Deep Dives into Tahoe Avalanche That Left 9 Dead
MARCH 2026 - On Feb. 28 the NYT published a lengthy report on the Feb. 17 avalanche in Lake Tahoe back country that took the lives of nine skiers - paying guests and their guides. It was the worst...
Rosebud Winner: NYT Report on Trump’s Latest Act of Crony Interference in US Global Trade
FEBRUARY 2026 - Here's yet another nicely documented article on out-in-the-open Trump corruption: According to a NYT report by White House correspondent Tyler Pager and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Trump...
Rosebud Winner: Carol Ryan’s Report in WSJ on Billionaire Tax Avoidance
FEBRUARY 2026 - London-based WSJ reporter Carol Ryan, in a Feb. 18 report, zeroed in on the US economy's dependence on tax revenues from billionaires and the super-rich, and its implications. It's a...