2025 Dao Prize for Best Reporting on Government Waste

Luke Rosiak won the 2025 Best Reporting on Government Waste Dao Prize for his report for the Daily Wire titled “Inside the Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings‘“. The Best Reporting on Government Waste award, or “DOGE” award, is a special annual Dao Prize, awarding $30,000.

Luke Rosiak is the Daily Wire’s Government Efficiency reporter, uncovering waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.

The Media Research Center named him Outstanding Investigative Journalist of 2022 after he broke the story of Loudoun County’s transgender rape coverup, which led to the election of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin in blue Virginia.

He is the author of two books: one on FBI corruption with Newt Gingrich, and the other on K-12 education with Peter Schweizer.

Luke often uses computer programming and databases to find scoops, including detecting major plagiarism by the president of the University of Maryland.

He previously worked for the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, the Senate oversight committee, and the Daily Caller.

He lives with his wife and children in Fairfax County, Virginia.