A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Arthur Miller
Rosebud Winner: A Newsy “Guest Essay” Underscores the Crossover Trend in Today’s Journalism
SEPTEMBER 2025 - Op-Eds and "Guest Essays" increasingly are their own source of news these days - they don't simply proffer opinions, like they once did. They share expertise and shed light on...
Rosebud Winner: ProPublica Reporters Reveal Trump Cabinet Members With Sketchy Mortgage Applications
SEPTEMBER 2025 - The non-profit DC news outfit ProPublica doesn't get enough credit - it quietly uncovers timely and relevant stories, and then must wait for bigger news outfits to pick up their...
Rosebud Archives: The Oregonian’s 2018 Series on Pac-12 Conference Predicted it All
SEPTEMBER 2025 - John Canzano is a well known sports pundit in Oregon today, a sports radio host and columnist for Portland's newspaper, The Oregonian. Back in November 2018 Canzano wrote a lengthy...
Rosebud Winner: Ezra Klein’s Constructive Commentary Following Kirk Assassination
SEPTEMBER 2025 - The aggressive, never-back-down voice of Charlie Kirk was silenced yesterday, as the 31-year-old political commentator was shot dead at a college event in Utah. As is typical these...
Worth Noting: Two Small Wins in the Multi-Front War on Unfettered Artificial Intelligence
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...
Rosebud Winner: “How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?”
SEPTEMBER 2025 - A May 2025 Op-Ed in The NYT by three university professors - experts in government, two from Harvard, a third from Univ. of Toronto - quite credibly outlined our nation's current...
Rosebud Winner: A Washington Post Report on Philly’s Transit Crisis
AUGUST 2025 - Yes, it's a little unfair to cite a Washington Post report on another city's public transit woes. After all, for years The Philadelphia Inquirer has been diligently covering the...
Rosebud Winner: NYU Academic on Higher Ed’s Reckoning with AI
AUGUST 2025 - Universities are coming to terms with the fact that their students are using AI to do all their work, a profound problem that's calling for an equally profound solution. NYU Provost...
Rosebud Winner: David Kirkpatrick of The New Yorker Runs a Tally of Trump’s Ongoing Grift
AUGUST 2025 - Veteran journalist David Kirkpatrick of The New York Yorker spent months compiling a voluminous (nearly 4,000 word) report on the myriad self-enrichment activities of Donald Trump and...
Rosebud Winner: Business Insider Covers the War Over Online RE Listings
AUGUST 2025 - For months now the news site BusinessInsider.com has been covering the emerging dispute over online real estate listings: At the center of it is a lawsuit by fast-growing Compass...