Author Archive
-
Campaign Desk
NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting
November 30, 2012 02:50 PMAs tax and spending talks grind on in Washington, The New York Times tells us Friday that in his latest proposal, President Obama has “embraced $400 billion in savings from Medicare and other entitlements to be worked out next... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Can people afford to lose their Social Security COLA?
November 29, 2012 11:00 AMThis post is the first of several primers on Social Security we will publish in the coming weeks to help journalists report on this topic. The Washington Post, whose news columns and opinion pieces have beat the drum for entitlement... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Dart: CBS and the Goldman Sachs solution
November 27, 2012 11:06 AMMaybe CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley was so awestruck by a chance to visit one of the seven trading floors over at Goldman Sachs, and by a rare interview opportunity with Goldman’s CEO, that... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Papa John’s Pizza and the business backlash
November 20, 2012 11:15 AMThe media have latched onto the story of John Schnatter. That’s the John of Papa John’s Pizza, a CEO with an Ebenezer Scrooge approach to his employees and customers. He is vowing to reduce employee hours and wages while... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage
November 15, 2012 01:12 PMIn mid-August, when Paul Ryan burst on the scene with his voucher scheme for Medicare, the 47-year old program suddenly became hot news. Until then, the media had paid scant attention to Medicare, except in the fall when they served... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
A dart to Yahoo Finance
November 12, 2012 02:50 PMBy now we’re accustomed to weak reporting about Social Security, but a piece on Yahoo Finance, part of its “Just Explain It” series, is a real doozey. It does not come within one centimeter of... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
A Laurel to NPR, for giving hospitals a disaster exam
November 7, 2012 06:51 AMNYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue represent a tale of two New York City hospitals. Langone is a well-endowed brand-name facility eager to trumpet its state-of-the-art treatments. Bellevue is the country’s oldest public hospital, with a... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Ask Romney This: What will replace Obamacare?
November 2, 2012 10:28 AMOver the final weeks of the campaign, CJR has been publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can consider posing to the presidential candidates.... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Social Security: a Laurel to The Motley Fool
November 1, 2012 11:15 AMThe motto of The Motley Fool is “To Educate, Amuse & Enrich,” and its piece called “5 Huge Myths About Social Security” certainly does educate. A lot of investors come to the site,... Continue reading
-
Behind the News
The universality of health reporting
October 26, 2012 02:50 PMLast week 112 journalists and academics from 12 countries met in Athens to talk about health reporting—the nitty-gritty of engaging audiences, building networks of honest sources, dealing with the conflicts of interest that are so pervasive in the medical... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare?
October 26, 2012 06:51 AMOver the final days of the campaign, CJR is running a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama This” and “Ask Romney This,” suggesting themes and questions that reporters and pundits can put to the presidential candidates. So far... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Scare-mongering from CBS
October 19, 2012 02:51 PMThe other night CBS Evening News brought forth another gloom and doom story about Social Security. Like others from the network that have come to CJR’s attention, this one sent a similar message: Social Security is... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
The ‘Man in the Middle’ hits a healthcare Catch-22
October 18, 2012 03:12 PMEver since the Great Health Reform Debate, we have kept in touch with Jeremy Devor, an engineering assistant in the farm community of Salem, IL. Devor contacted us back then and wanted to know what the health reform... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
The word on the street: worried
October 15, 2012 03:11 PMContinuing our Town Hall tours—in which CJR talks to voters, partly to encourage other journalists to do so, too—I visited Portsmouth, NH, in the southeastern corner of a swing state that backed the president four years ago. An NBC News/Wall... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Healthcare—reform in Great Britain vs. the USA:
October 10, 2012 06:50 AM
part twoA while back Trudy Lieberman sat down with Chris Smyth, the health correspondent for The Times of London, who was visiting America to learn more about the US health system, and who has covered the debate over reforms in his... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Healthcare in Great Britain vs. healthcare in the USA: part one
October 9, 2012 07:00 AMNot long ago I sat down with Chris Smyth, a health journalist for The Times of London, who was traveling in the US to research American healthcare. Meanwhile, I have made several trips to the UK to report on the... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
October 8, 2012 03:00 PM
shouldn’t standThere was no shortage of media fact checking after last week’s presidential debate, much of it focused on healthcare, much of it good. Still, reporters left a lot of healthcare “facts” on the table, unexamined, too. Let’s take a look.... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Medicare costs: Are electronic records the solution—or the problem?
October 3, 2012 03:00 PMElectronic billing has been promoted as a big cost savings for healthcare. But is it? The Center for Public Integrity has challenged the conventional wisdom, and the rest of us would do well to pay attention.... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
The word on the street: Divided
October 1, 2012 03:26 PMLast week I journeyed up to New England to see what voters thought of the debate over Medicare, for another of our CJR Town Halls, which this political season have been focused on Medicare. Polls continue to show... Continue reading
-
Swing States Project
Pinning down Obama on Social Security
September 28, 2012 11:14 AMLiberals took comfort in the president’s speech to the AARP Friday when he promised to defend Social Security. But his talk left a whole lot of wiggle room for reporters to read between the lines and try—try is the... Continue reading
—advertisement—
Desks
The Audit Business
- Anti-paywall dead-enders Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
- Audit Notes: pyramid people, Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall Roddy Boyd digs into a diet-shake pyramid scheme
The Observatory Science
- Dull news from Doha UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press
- Highway to the danger zone Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting People perspective leads to clear explanation of impact of proposed changes
- In Pennsylvania, a niche site with wide reach PoliticsPA drives political conversation in Keystone State
Behind the News The Media
Blog
The Kicker last updated: Fri 3:00 PM
- Must-reads of the week
- The media news cycle is bananas
- Pass the #popcorn
- Must-reads of the week
- Tom Rosenstiel leaving Pew
The Future of Media
News Startups Guide last updated: Thu 10:24 AM
- TRVL A free iPad travel magazine
- TheDigitel A small chain of local news sites/ aggregators in South Carolina
