A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: A Small NYT Follow-Up About The Late, Great Diane Keaton
OCTOBER 2025 - When Diane Keaton died last week at age 79, all the big newsrooms published characteristically solid obituaries - largely focused on her Hollywood roles and her career as the...
Rosebud Winner: ProPublica’s Andy Kroll Goes All-In Sizing Up “Shadow President” Russell Vought
OCTOBER 2025 - DC-based nonprofit ProPublica is on something of a tear here - three Rosebud awards in the last five weeks. The latest goes to Andy Kroll, formerly of Rolling Stone and Mother Jones,...
Rosebud Winner: Claudia Kolker’s Timely Interviews of Houston Immigrants
OCTOBER 2025 - Houston-based journalist Claudia Kolker for years has been writing on immigration issues, and last month The Houston Chronicle published some timely interviews of immigrant workers....
Rosebud Winner: WaPo Report on TikTok Addiction, in Graphics
OCTOBER 2025- Several staffers of The Washington Post - including two "graphics reporters" and a "political data reporter" - dove into the addictive properties of TikTok, a fascinating undertaking...
Rosebud Winner: Bloomberg Reports on “Zombie Mortgages”, An Attack by Wall Street Speculators on The Middle Class
OCTOBER 2025 - Bloomberg News reporters Sarah Holder and David Fox this month produced a remarkable set of stories - and a podcast - on an emerging problem: Homeowners are having their homes...
Rosebud Winner: Ben Fritz’s Report on the Depressing Job Situation in LA’s Entertainment Industry
OCTOBER 2025 - Entertainment reporter Ben Fritz of The Wall Street Journal describes some real-life experiences of longtime gig workers in LA's once-vast entertainment industry. It's an important...
Assignment Desk: Sinclair, Nexstar, Other Broadcast Companies Only Make Money in Election Years?
OCTOBER 2025 - Last month's dust-up over Jimmy Kimmel's suspension - and the blackouts by broadcast companies Sinclair and Nexstar - cast a klieg light on the owners of scores of small broadcast...
Rosebud Winner: Tom Nichols’s Timely Review of the Trump/Hegseth Show for 800 Generals
OCTOBER 2025 - National security expert Tom Nichols in The Atlantic gave a quick and eloquent review of the Trump/Hegseth command performance in Quantico, Va., before 800 of America's military...
Rosebud Winner: ProPublica Reveals Secret that Gets FEMA to Take Your Call
SEPTEMBER 2025 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency isn't known nowadays for its responsiveness - except, it turns out, if you have a political donor make a call for you. That's the takeaway...
Worth Noting: NY Magazine’s Noah Shachtman Examines Trump Family “Casino Payday”
SEPTEMBER 2025 - Veteran journalist Noah Shachtman writes in NY Magazine a gossipy piece full of anonymous quotes on the Trump family's likely payday from a casino deal in The Bronx, made possible...