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Parsing the AP’s Health Care Primer
Its attempt at informing falls short
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 17, 2010 at 03:31 PM
The Associated Press has been an important voice in the health care debate. So it was disappointing to see its... More
The President Pushes against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
But what do those terms really mean?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM
The president has a sales job to do if he wants the American people to get behind whatever reform emerges... More
Is the Past Prologue?
The pedigree of Alan Simpson
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Before too many weeks pass, I want to comment on an illuminating Gray Matters column by Saul Friedman, an old... More
Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance
And therein lie some lessons for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 11, 2010 at 02:53 PM
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took strong action the other day when it kicked Fox Insurance out... More
What Was Sebelius Saying?
David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 10, 2010 at 04:01 PM
The president and his staff have brought us to the stump-speech stage of health reform: the familiar talking points, the... More
Regulating Health Care, Part III
When is an insurance company too small to cover?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X
Unintended consequences for low-income workers
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Four years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
The Cost of Living, Part III
Are the docs really going to drop their patients?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More
Takeaway from the Summit
Decoding what was said during yesterday’s health care reform meeting
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 26, 2010 at 03:36 PM
For weeks leading up to the president’s health care summit yesterday, the media tossed around phrases like ‘kabuki dance,’ ‘dog-and-pony... More
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 02:55 PM
Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
The Cost of Living, Part II
A shout-out to the San Francisco Chronicle
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting
And finds a cross-section of public opinion on health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 22, 2010 at 04:37 PM
The polls continue to say that roughly half of Americans don’t support health reform. A Zogby poll finds that about... More
Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases
And the press finally takes note
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 22, 2010 at 02:40 PM
We were pleased to see HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discover that high rate increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross were... More
The Anthem Saga Revisited
What exactly was the Times trying to tell us?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 19, 2010 at 12:04 PM
The story idea seemed reasonable—a follow-up to the news that Anthem Blue Cross planned to raise rates on individual policies... More
On the Social Security Battlefront
Reporters and their sources
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 17, 2010 at 05:11 PM
For months, Campaign Desk has observed that reporters covering health reform have used the same sources over and over. Now... More
The Devil in the Details, Part VI
Needed: a health care primer for Fox News
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 15, 2010 at 01:59 PM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
Regulating Health Care, Part II
Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Health Reform on C-SPAN
Is that really the issue?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM
Republicans waved a new flag of health reform opposition right after New Year’s, when Florida governor Charlie Crist attacked the... More
Is Health Reform Dead or Alive?
Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Last week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The... More
The Cost of Living Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” series, in descending order. 02/02/11:... 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.
