by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Dec 2, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form
NOVEMBER 2025 – Anyone who has ever sat through a Tom Stoppard play – all witty and original but dense and abstruse, full of flourishes but often ponderous – can be excused if they felt they were never quite, well, entertained. Stoppard’s works...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 19, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form
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 his family since Trump re-took office in January. Almost all of...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Aug 12, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form
AUGUST 2025 – We’ve extolled the virtues of the NYT obit desk, so why stop? NYT obituaries today have no peer – and last week’s obituary about CIA operative Sandra Grimes, who uncovered the case of turncoat Aldrich (“Rick”) Ames,...
by Rosebud Journalism Awards | Jun 30, 2025 | Obituaries & Long Form
JUNE 2025 – Longtime broadcast journalist Bill Moyers died last week at age 91, and both the Washington Post and the NYT came out – on the same day as his death – with lengthy and robustly textured obituaries of him. Obits of course are hardly...