Rosalind Helderman


Rosalind S. Helderman is a journalist in the United States. She is currently a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post.

Early life and education

Helderman was born to Hal and Phyllis Helderman and raised in metropolitan Nashville. 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.

Career

Helderman joined The Post as a reporter in 2001. She was initially a general assignment reporter for the newspaper until she was promoted in 2014 to The Post's national political investigations and enterprise team for the 2014 and 2016 election cycles. 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 the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign that won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize.

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