Rosalind Helderman

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

(1978-10-03) October 3, 1978
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Alma materHarvard 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[1][2], though she is now the Supreme Court editor for The New York Times[3].

Biography

Helderman was born to Hal and Phyllis Helderman and raised in metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee. Her family is Jewish.[4] She graduated from the West End Synagogue’s Beit Miriam Religious School[4] and earned a B.A. in history from Harvard University in 2001, where she was managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.[5]

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[3]. She was then promoted in 2014 to The Post's national political investigations and enterprise team[6], 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[3]. She is a regular contributor to MSNBC.[7]

Helderman was named Outstanding Journalist of the Year by the Virginia Press Association;[4] 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.[8] She won another

In 2025, Helderman joined The New York Times as their Supreme Court editor, a newly created role[3].

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. "Rosalind Helderman Joins The Times". The New York Times Company. 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2026-06-21.
  4. "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.