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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
Straight Talk, Part I
The end-of-life myth and the real long-term care stories to be told
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 13, 2009 at 12:08 PM
With charges, countercharges, information, disinformation, flat-out lies, and half truths being disseminated on all sides of the health reform debates,... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XIII
United Healthcare has a mighty big seat
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2009 at 02:30 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Health Reform and Obama’s Consumer Protections
Good for consumers, or good for insurers?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Last Wednesday, The Washington Post told us the obvious: that “the fight over health-care legislation is saturating the summer airwaves,... More
Straight Talk Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Straight Talk” series, in descending order. 08/13/09: Straight Talk,... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part V
Finding affordable health insurance
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 5, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Health Care Homework for the LA Times
How does the Canadian medical system actually work?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 4, 2009 at 01:42 PM
By now, it’s pretty clear that the U.S. is not going to adopt health reform that in any way resembles... More
Detailing the Details
A few bright spots in the media’s health reform coverage
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Media coverage of health reform lately has centered on the legislative horse race, as we knew it would. The press... More
Pelosi, Prevention, and PBS
Is Madame Speaker misinformed?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 31, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Preventative care saves money? C’est impossible, Madame Speaker! For weeks, we on Campaign Desk have been pointing out this fallacy,... More
Shades of Richard Nixon
Is Obama playing defense or offense?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 30, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Those of us of a certain generation remember Richard Nixon and all the gory Watergate details that oozed out and... More
Health Reform Too Boring for Broadcast?
Not at KQED
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 28, 2009 at 03:56 PM
Over the weekend, Politico published one of those juicy, inside-the-industry stories that media execs love to read. The story trashed... More
Baucus Watch, Part XII
The mother’s milk of politics and more
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 27, 2009 at 01:23 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
All the President’s Words, Part II
Slogans for change, or a movement for change?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 24, 2009 at 11:15 AM
What case did the president make for reform Wednesday night? Not a very persuasive one, in my view. For me,... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
