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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
Vetting Daschle’s Replacement
And the wisdom of the crowd
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 9, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Call it citizen journalism or citizen participation, but the Internet has been full of stories about Tom Daschle’s would-be replacement... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Timothy Jost
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 9, 2009 at 07:00 AM
The past year’s health care discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated... More
Baucus Watch, Part V
Smoke signals—when exactly will health reform happen?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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 V
The hospitals begin to take their seats
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Mr. Daschle and His Speaking Fees
What “policy advice” did he give to United Healthcare?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 2, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Only the naïve would expect a public official to be pure as an angel these days, what with today’s megabuck... More
Laurel to The Oregonian
Health care miracles that aren’t
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM
“Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles!” That pretty much describes the media’s approach to coverage of new drugs and medical... More
COBRA and Health Care Equity
It’s time for the press to connect some dots
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 26, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Remedies for America’s diseased health system tend to come incrementally—an approach that doesn’t disrupt the status quo but never quite... More
Baucus Watch Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Baucus Watch” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Baucus Watch” series, in descending order. 10/02/09: Baucus Watch,... More
Baucus Watch, Part IV
Lobbyists in white hats
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 23, 2009 at 09:12 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Missing Children
The story behind the story on SCHIP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Last week, the House passed a long-awaited bill that would increase the number of kids covered under the State Children’s... More
Dart to the Florida Health News Service
Whose side is it on, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM
“Will Obama be able to kill popular Advantage plans?" Whoa! The headline sounded ominous and signaled that the new president... More
WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare
Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
It’s not everyday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cracks down hard on one of its clients;... More
Health Care Flashpoints Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 12, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” series, in descending order. 06/29/09: Health... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
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.
