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CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Obama’s disconnect with the voters
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living... More
Bad Omens for Health Care
Mixed coverage of the latest premium hikes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers... More
Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured
The national media pass on an important story
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health... More
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV
Sac Bee catches nursing home lies
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of... More
Perry Misleads on RomneyCare
Socialized medicine, really?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 19, 2011 at 01:08 PM
It's becoming clear that Rick Perry has never met a buzzword he doesn’t like. We’ve heard that Social Security is... More
Deep Health Care Problems under Rick Perry’s Watch
Deep in the heart of Texas
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM
With the media hyper-focused on Texas governor Rick Perry’s not-too-flattering comments about Social Security, health care in his state seems... More
Forget That Ponzi Scheme Stuff
It’s the tax holiday, stupid
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 12, 2011 at 01:22 PM
At the end of August, Nebraska senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat up for reelection next year, told members of the... More
Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra
The part of the story that the Times didn’t tell
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on... More
Rate Regulation Blow-up in California
WellPoint and co. win again
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any... More
Golden Teeth
Dallas’s WFAA shows crooked Medicaid spending on orthodontia
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 1, 2011 at 01:17 PM
These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime,... More
The Facts Ma’am—Just the Facts
Rick Perry dodges Social Security questions, while CNBC explains
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 29, 2011 at 02:05 PM
Rick Perry zipped into Ottumwa, Iowa Saturday with a message about Social Security. Along with the usual jabs at the... More
Revisiting the Man in the Middle
Health reform won’t help him
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2011 at 03:44 PM
As the Great Health Care Debate wound down, we visited Jeremy Devor, an engineering assistant in Salem, Illinois, a town... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri
Do the pols represent the voters?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2011 at 03:25 PM
As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the... More
The Back Story on Medicare’s Wild Spending
The narrative unfolds, bit by bit
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2011 at 02:55 PM
It’s no secret Medicare spending is on a wild ride northward. The politicians--Dems and Republicans alike--tell us that every day.... More
Romney and His Corporate Man
A frivolous take from NPR
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 15, 2011 at 12:44 PM
It’s hard to say what was the point of NPR’s coverage of Mitt Romney’s visit to the Iowa State Fair.... More
A Hospital Story Not to Write
Doing the digging for real news
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2011 at 01:43 PM
My Association of Health Care Journalists colleague Charlie Ornstein likes to say that stories about hospital ribbon-cuttings, wings named for... More
Is Tim Pawlenty For Real?
The StarTribune suggests maybe he isn’t
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2011 at 01:03 PM
The Minneapolis StarTribune’s piece on presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is the kind of story voters can expect to see at... More
Playing It Safe the McCaskill Way
David Gregory’s lame interview
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM
I guess it’s too much to hope that the Sunday morning news shows could ever rise above the typical blather... More
The Deficit Deal Defined
Is Medicare really safe?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 2, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett chatted with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC yesterday as part of a sales job for the deficit... More
Paul Krugman on Journalistic Balance
The missing voices
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 1, 2011 at 01:28 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman addressed the cult of balance in the debt debate Friday when he wrote: News... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
