David E. Rosenbaum, 63; Retired New York Times Reporter and Editor

David E. Rosenbaum, 63, a veteran New York Times reporter and editor who retired last month, died Sunday at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., from a brain injury suffered in a street robbery near his home in the nation’s capital. Police are seeking two suspects.

Rosenbaum shared the George Polk Award for national reporting with another reporter for their coverage of the 1990 budget deal in which President George H.W. Bush abandoned his pledge not to raise taxes. For years, Rosenbaum wrote a feature called “The Fine Print,” which dissected hidden or confusing details of new legislation.

Born in Miami, he grew up in Tampa, Fla., where his father founded a citrus cannery. Rosenbaum earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1963 and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University two years later.

He worked for the St. Petersburg Times, a chain of suburban newspapers in London and the Congressional Quarterly in Washington before joining the Times bureau in Washington in 1968.