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A Shout-out to the Associated Press
For exposing a big loophole in the health reform bill
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2009 at 09:19 AM
Back in August, Campaign Desk pointed out that President Obama’s much-ballyhooed consumer protections required the media’s critical eye as legislation... More
The Next Most Underreported Health Reform Story
What will happen to SCHIP?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 14, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Where are the chips falling, so to speak, when it comes to the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)?... More
The Botox Beat
Using the press to fight a proposed tax on cosmetic surgery
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 9, 2009 at 11:19 AM
First came the medical device makers and now the plastic surgeons. Both groups have a problem. You see, Congress wants... More
What’s So Public about a Public Plan?
The language says it all
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Word comes from Politico that maybe—just maybe—the Senate is nearing a deal on the public option. You remember—that larger-than-life legislative... More
The Most Underreported Health Reform Story
And the senator from Nebraska
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 7, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Friday night the Senate gave grudging support to a provision in its health reform bill—the so-called CLASS Act, short for... More
The Headlines Tell Us Everything
The Congressional Budget Office weighs in on premiums
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 4, 2009 at 02:05 PM
The release of the Congressional Budget Office’s report this week predicting how health reform might affect insurance premiums dished up... More
Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Cost Controls
What miracle will bring down the price of medical care?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 3, 2009 at 08:00 AM
At this point in the health reform debate, press coverage is beginning to sound a lot like 1993-94, when the... More
The Man in the Middle
What Jeremy Devor’s story tells us about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Meet Jeremy Devor, a technician with an associate degree in engineering, who lives in Salem, Illinois, a town of about... More
Missing Persons Redux
Insuring those at the very bottom
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 25, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Last Monday night, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer devoted air time to an exchange between two former secretaries of Health... More
The Devil in the Details, Part III
Is this really insurance reform?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2009 at 08:07 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
Ron Wyden Speaks Out
Straight talk on affordability from Oregon’s senior senator
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 23, 2009 at 09:22 AM
On Friday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden got the Senate health care duo, Max Baucus and Harry Reid, to agree that... More
Laurel to the Missoulian
For telling the human story of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 18, 2009 at 04:10 PM
Last Sunday, the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana did what Campaign Desk has been urging papers to do--it showed how its... More
Missing Persons
How will reform affect ordinary folks?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Come on now. We’ve heard enough about the political horserace of health reform—way too much of Nancy, Max, and Olympia.... More
Do Doctors Always Tell the Truth?
No, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 13, 2009 at 02:38 PM
Kudos to the Journal Sentinel and reporter John Fauber for digging up the difference between fact and fiction when it... More
Infant Mortality, Abortion, and WellPoint’s Tonik Policy
It’s dot-connection time for the media
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2009 at 09:40 AM
First, there was last week’s news that the U.S. ranks thirtieth in the world when it comes to infant mortality.... More
The Doctors and the Disabled
Have the doctors won on fee cuts?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 9, 2009 at 09:18 AM
The American Medical Association was positively gleeful after the House bill passed, quickly issuing a statement on its Web site... More
The Disabled and the Doctors
People with disabilities will still have to wait for Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 9, 2009 at 09:17 AM
As members of Congress ticked off for the home crowds the general achievements of their narrowly passed bill Saturday, and... More
The Price of Medical Services
Is the conversation finally starting?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM
By now, most of the health care cognoscenti realize that we have not had a robust discussion of medical costs.... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IX
What does the public say?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
The Devil in the Details, Part II
Who can afford health insurance after reform?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 2, 2009 at 09:51 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
