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The Times Misses the Mark
A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
What could The New York Times have been thinking when it fronted a piece the other day serving up some... More
Dr. Coca-Cola on Call
The king of Coke teams up with the family docs
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2009 at 02:08 PM
One thing you have to say about the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is that it is... More
Truth Emerges about the Public Option
Who really will be allowed to join?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George and his guests suddenly realized that the public option, whatever shape it... More
The Latest News from Massachusetts
Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM
It is surprising, as The Washington Post noted Friday, that President Obama paid a political visit to help Massachusetts Gov.... More
Who Will Be at the Table, Part XVII
The docs are back for their piece of the pie
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VIII
Unintended consequences for patients
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2009 at 08:31 AM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part VI
The view from Union Station, Washington D.C.
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 15, 2009 at 05:30 AM
Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate--Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
The Insurers’ Grand Strategy
More well-timed studies to influence the pols and the polls
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I have no pipeline to the insurance industry gods, but for more than a year now, I have watched their... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XVI
Fighting a soda tax
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
WellPoint versus the State of Maine
Forget Olympia Snowe, there’s other news in the north country
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM
For weeks, the only health reform news from Maine has swirled around Sen. Olympia Snowe. Would the state’s senior senator... More
The Devil in the Details, Part I
The tug-of-war over penalties for not buying coverage
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
The Devil in the Details Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” series, in descending order. 04/12/10:... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII
Unintended consequences for small business
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Baucus Watch, Part XVI
What we should have known all along
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
Journalism in the Heartland
A shout out to the Kansas City Star and the Salina (Kan.) Journal
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 30, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Good journalism doesn’t just grow on the right and left coasts. Two papers in America’s middle show that good reporting... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part V
The view from the Italian festival, Scranton, Pa.
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
Baucus Watch, Part XV
What’s the senator hiding in his bill?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 27, 2009 at 03:19 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
A Dart to Health Affairs
Policy journal jumps in bed with Aetna
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM
In this day and age, when medical journals have come under fire for failing to disclose researchers’ conflicts of interest;... More
Baucus Watch, Part XIV
The senator confronts the affordability question
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2009 at 04:33 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
When a Tax Is a Tax
The New York Times explains
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Reed Abelson deserves a shout-out for her story Sunday detailing how Sen. Max Baucus and his Senate Finance Committee plan... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
