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What Should John Boehner Do?
Kaiser asks the health cognoscenti
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2010 at 11:24 AM
One of the more interesting and informative pieces of journalism to cross my computer screen in recent months was a... More
The Election Story Not Told
The irony of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM
For months we knew that health reform was in big trouble. Tuesday night, we found out how big. Health care... More
Medicare Beat Memo
What the campaign advertising missed
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 1, 2010 at 12:04 PM
There are some uncomfortable truths about Medicare changes lurking in the health reform law. Because the pols on both sides... More
Setting the Record Straight on Campaign Ads
Who’s telling the truth about Medicare?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Pity the senior citizens in the voting booth Tuesday. Who should they believe about Medicare—the Dems and their surrogates, who... More
Social Security in Perspective, Part II
A conversation with Alicia Munnell
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Proposals to change the Social Security system are fast taking shape, and many of them call for substantial benefit cuts... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Putman
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 25, 2010 at 01:17 PM
This is the fifth of a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
Health Care and the Massachusetts Governor’s Race
Kudos to WBUR
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Through the long reform debate, health care and Massachusetts went together like love and marriage—or so the media told us.... More
CBS Story Short but Not So Sweet
Skimpy info in the network’s take on retirement age
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM
I am not quite sure what point CBS Evening News had in mind a few days ago when it aired... More
A Laurel to the Seattle Times
For investigating the state’s adult care homes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2010 at 09:31 AM
We’ve become accustomed to newspaper exposes of nursing homes. But other places that house the frail elderly are another matter.... More
Another CJR Town Hall in the Badger State
Wisconsinites sound off about health reform and Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Can I talk to you about health reform, I asked twenty-eight-year-old Michelle Zywicki, who was working at a computer in... More
Unintended Consequence Number 38
The hospital big boys get bigger, too
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2010 at 02:26 PM
Over at Kaiser Health News, staff writer Julie Appleby produced an illuminating story about ongoing consolidation among hospitals and physician... More
Unintended Consequences
What the press should have known about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2010 at 02:20 PM
During the health reform debate, the Obama administration stuck to its mantra—the law would bring competition to health care, which... More
A CJR Town Hall in the Badger State
Wisconsinites sound off about Russ Feingold
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2010 at 01:04 PM
In this land of beer, brats, and the Packers, it is the autumn of discontent. Anger, distrust, apprehension, disaffection—these are... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Laurie Cooper
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 29, 2010 at 12:38 PM
Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More
Distrust and Health Reform
The public smells a rat
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 27, 2010 at 08:00 AM
A fine piece last Wednesday by Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown dissects what political prognosticators from Bill Clinton to Obama pollster... More
Tracking the Tea Parties
Good work from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Thumbs up to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a bright, engaging piece about the Tea Party movement in Wisconsin. The... More
CJR Holds a Town Meeting
Not everyone knows about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 16, 2010 at 09:06 AM
A year ago last August, I visited the college town of Columbia, Missouri, and did man-on-the-street interviews with small business... More
A Rate Increase for James Windus
Where is the New York media?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2010 at 09:40 AM
James Windus, a New York City personal trainer, got a nasty letter a few weeks ago from his insurance carrier,... More
Sebelius Watch, Part V
The war of words with insurers continues
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2010 at 09:34 AM
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has emerged as the person to watch as the Obama administration scrambles to... More
Another Curious Omission
The Fiscal Times and Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 10, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Edmund Andrews, a senior writer for The Fiscal Times, has given us an interesting story about the 800-pound gorilla of... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
