[5][6] He then joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a suburban correspondent before spending seven years at Newsday on Long Island, New York covering local and state government.
[7] He was among a group of Journal reporters to win a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading in 2011.
[8] Rothfeld was a lead contributor to the coverage of President Donald Trump’s hush-money payments during the 2016 campaigns to suppress the stories of two women who claimed to have had affairs with him, leading to a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his reporting team.
[2] In 2019, Rothfeld joined the metro desk of The New York Times as an investigative reporter.
[5] He co-authored the 2020 book The Fixers with his colleague Joe Palazzolo on their Pulitzer-winning coverage.