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Medical Homes? You’ve Got To Be Kidding
The new health care dialect
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM
At a gathering of Washington health care journalists last week, panelists, including myself, talked about the challenges of covering this... More
Examining the Individual Mandate
The Wall Street Journal takes a hard look in Massachusetts
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 18, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Hurrah! At last a major publication has looked in some depth at the central feature of the Obama-et-al health plan.... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VI
The canary in the coal mine
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 16, 2009 at 09:54 AM
Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XV
The gun owners come out of the woodwork
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2009 at 10:42 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part IV
The view from Main Street, Columbia, Mo.
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
What Did the President Really Say?
More goals and details and questions to ponder
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 10, 2009 at 12:52 PM
Politico got it just about right. “In the end,” wrote Carrie Budoff Brown, “a speech meant to reset the health... More
Baucus Watch, Part XIII
At last, the senator brings forth a plan
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 9, 2009 at 11:27 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
Where Have All the Health Reform Goals Gone?
What will Obama articulate tonight?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
When Barack Obama was running for president, he said he wanted to make sure every child had health insurance. That... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part III
The view from Wal-Mart, Honesdale, Pa.
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Everyone, it seems, is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
Shout-outs to the Kansas City Star and Kaiser News Service
For starting to fill in the blanks on health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM
For months we on Campaign Desk have been urging the media to pull back the reins at health care’s Kentucky... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part II
The view from the heartland—the patients
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 4, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Everyone, it seems, is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
The Op-Ed No One Wanted
Canada’s corpse-strewn landscape?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM
By now, how many Americans haven’t heard of death panels, and the Big Bad Government interfering with end-of-life decisions that... More
CJR’s Town Hall Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “CJR's Town Hall Meetings” series, in descending order. 12/02/11:... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part I
The view from Starbucks at Fifteenth and Third
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Everyone, it seems, is trying to take the pulse of the electorate—Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
Laurel to T.R. Reid
For extraordinary clarity in explaining foreign health systems
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 28, 2009 at 01:39 PM
As I have posted many times on Campaign Desk, the media, for the most part, has hardly touched how health... More
Ted Kennedy’s Health Care Legacy
Reporting on the lion
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 26, 2009 at 12:31 PM
I met Sen. Ted Kennedy only once. He showed up one winter night at the home of former Labor Secretary... More
Was a Public Plan Ever Really in the Cards?
Did Sebelius speak the truth?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 25, 2009 at 01:48 PM
The media should have seen it coming. Last week, on CNN, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said a... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIV
Those clever drug companies
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with British health official Andrew Dillon
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 18, 2009 at 09:01 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Reality Check for the White House
Axelrod’s e-mail raises more questions
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Last Thursday, in an attempt to counter the health reform misinformation being propagated by President Obama’s ideological opponents, presidential adviser... 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 (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
