A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: The NYT’s Early Reporting on “28-Point Peace Plan” Reveals Plan for What It Is
NOVEMBER 2025 - Days before Bloomberg News came out its Nov. 25 exclusive that Steve Witkoff coached a Russian official, the NYT was already deconstructing the "28-point plan" that Witkoff...
Rosebud Winner: In National Geographic, Rachel Fairbank Reports on Reversing Chronic Kidney Disease
NOVEMBER 2025 - Rachel Fairbank is a Houston-based science writer and regular contributor to National Geographic, which is publishing daily reports on health issues. Such articles show up in Nat...
Rosebud Winner: On Veterans Day, A Much-Needed Reminder of US Wartime Sacrifice In Europe
NOVEMBER 2025 - The NYT has never been known for loudly proclaiming its military-related patriotism - it has almost no service veterans on its staff, after all. But the news site today, Veterans...
Rosebud Winner: 78-year-old Federal Judge Didn’t Have to Take to Trumpet His Resignation, But He Did
NOVEMBER 2025 - Longtime US District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf didn't have to prepare a thoughtful public commentary about his resignation, but this weekend he did - in The Atlantic, of all places....
Rosebud Winner: Chip Cutter Chronicles the Experiences of Longtime Employees Across the Job Spectrum
NOVEMBER 2025 - The WSJ's Chip Cutter, a NYC-based business reporter, did some old-fashioned, man-in-the-street reporting and came away with 10 nicely packaged mini-profiles (one with two Ford...
Rosebud Winner: China’s Global Network of Deep-Water Ports is “Too Big for Trump to Unravel,” Bloomberg Reports
NOVEMBER 2025 - An Oct. 20 report in Bloomberg BusinessWeek details the proliferation of a China-controlled network of ports around the world, a sensitive geopolitical development that 's gotten...
Rosebud Winner: WSJ Description of the Anarchic Streets of Today’s Johannesburg
OCTOBER 2025 - It's still trending most popular right now - a WSJ news story published Tuesday by Alexandra Wexler that describes the three-foot potholes and broken signal lights on the streets of...
Worth Noting: Two Quick Columns on Deadline by Jason Gay
OCTOBER 2025 - College and pro sports are careering from all that money - and back-to-back columns this week by the WSJ's Jason Gay bring the most recent headlines into nice perspective. On Oct. 24...
Rosebud Winner: Maureen Dowd Says It’s “As If He’s Tearing Down a Gas Station”
OCTOBER 2025 - The NYT's indomitable Maureen Dowd weighed in last week on Trump's latest real-estate project - which began with his unchecked demolition of a wing of a dwelling that doesn't even...
Worth Noting: UC Davis Academic Examines Crypto’s Roots to Libertarianism
OCTOBER 2025 - Finn Brunton is a PhD. academic (aren't they all) who's been focused on science and tech studies the last few decades, and last week he penned in the NYT a dread-filled commentary on...