Rosalind S. Helderman

Rosalind S. Helderman
Helderman at the 2018 Pulitzer Prize awards ceremony
Born
Rosalind Sarah Helderman

(1978-10-03) October 3, 1978 (age 48)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
EducationHarvard University
OccupationJournalist
Years active2001-present
EmployerThe Washington Post
Awards

Rosalind S. Helderman (born October 3, 1978) is a journalist in the United States. For over two decades, she was a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post, though she is now the Supreme Court editor for The New York Times.

Biography

Helderman was born to Hal and Phyllis Helderman and raised in metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee. Her family is Jewish. She graduated from the West End Synagogue’s Beit Miriam Religious School and earned a B.A. in history from Harvard University in 2001, where she was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.

Helderman joined The Post as a reporter in 2001 as a summer intern. She was initially a general assignment reporter for the newspaper, spending 10 years covering local news around the Washington region before joining the national staff in 2011 to cover Congress. She was then promoted in 2014 to The Post's national political investigations and enterprise team, on which she covered the Clinton email controversy, the Mueller investigation, Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the January 6th attack. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC.

Helderman was named Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Virginia Press Association; won a George Polk Award in 2014; and was one of the investigators whose coverage of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize. She won another

In 2025, Helderman joined The New York Times as their Supreme Court editor, a newly created role.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  2. ↑ "Rosalind S. Helderman, PBS Washington Week". PBS.org. Archived from the original on February 18, 2019. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Rosalind Helderman Joins The Times". The New York Times Company. 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  4. 1 2 3 "Mazel Tov – July 2014". The Jewish Observer. June 27, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Rosalind S. Helderman | Writer Profile | The Harvard Crimson". TheCrimson.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  6. ↑ Gold, Hadas (February 6, 2014). "WaPo's Roz Helderman to investigative team". Politico. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  7. ↑ "Mueller obtains personal letter from Trump to Putin: WaPo". MSNBC. March 10, 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  8. ↑ "Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting: Staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post". Pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2019-02-17.