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Insurers Have a New Idea
Is it really for real?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 25, 2009 at 09:52 AM
The AP moved a story yesterday afternoon reporting that members of two health insurance trade associations, America’s Health Insurance Plans... More
What Are Insurers Up To?
It depends on whose story you read
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 25, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Two views of the insurance industry lobby emerged in the press the last couple of weeks—one an AP puff piece... More
Massachusetts Health Reform Archive
An archive of all entries in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2009 at 02:05 PM
Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts” series, in descending order. 03/03/10:... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I
Critical analysis begins to trickle in
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer
For parsing preexisting conditions
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 18, 2009 at 02:20 PM
A couple of decades ago, journalists at every paper and TV station, following the lead of The Wall Street Journal,... More
Time Offers Half a Loaf
Great health care story—but then what?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 12, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Reading Karen Tumulty’s compelling narrative about her brother’s illness and misadventures in the U.S. health care system in this week’s... More
The Takeaway from the Health Care Summit
New euphemisms for the press to avoid
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Tevi Troy, a visiting senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, writing on The Fox Forum, the news blog of Fox... More
Baucus Watch, Part VI
The senator’s thoughts on financing health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 6, 2009 at 02:03 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part VI
Single-payer advocates are almost left off the invite list
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Explaining COBRA
Let’s have some straight talk from the media
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM
The ways in which laid-off workers will be helped under the stimulus bill’s COBRA provisions continue to be of great... More
Wanted: More Skepticism at The New York Times
When the word “nonprofit” has a deeper meaning
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2009 at 02:50 PM
On Saturday, The New York Times’s new consumer feature, “Patient Money,” which discusses pocketbook issues relating to health care, tackled... More
Adieu, Medicare Advantage?
Another insurer gets in trouble
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM
A week or so ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered WellCare, the super-aggressive seller of Medicare... More
Where’s the Plan?
The media score well on their first-day budget stories
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yesterday morning, a friend e-mailed asking for my take on the President’s plan for health reform. Perhaps she was looking... More
Mandating Health Coverage Makes a Comeback
The President and the man on the street
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Last night, with his voice full of force, the President boomed: “Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait,... More
Divining Obama’s Health Care Budget
Early signals and the need for sharp eyes
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 24, 2009 at 01:31 PM
Sam Stein, who blogs at the Huffington Post, apparently has a pipeline to the health care gods—in this case, a... More
Update on Medicare Advantage Plans
The administration’s unfinished business
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 20, 2009 at 07:00 AM
At the tail end of the presidential campaign, Barack Obama said he wanted to reduce the federal government’s overpayments to... More
A Laurel to the AP
For telling us who may not be at the table
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 19, 2009 at 09:45 AM
Earlier this week the AP sent out a story that offered some clues to the future of health reform and... More
The Stimulus Bill and Universal Coverage
The media are AWOL at the first skirmish
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 17, 2009 at 02:22 PM
Just as the deal was being struck on the stimulus package, the News Hour on PBS aired a segment about... More
Dart to CNN
Who’s fact checking whom?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 13, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Anyone listening to CNN Wednesday morning might have been scared to death. The specter of the government coming between doctor... More
What the Stimulus Package Holds for Health Care
The devil indeed lurks in the details
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM
It’s not often that the media pay much attention to different versions of a bill when they emerge from the... 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.
