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Report from the Tupperware Circuit
A laurel to the Marion (Ohio) Star
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 23, 2008 at 11:22 AM
On Friday, we urged reporters to attend the community listening sessions called for by Tom Daschle, the President-elect’s health chief.... More
Health Care Flashpoints
Whither the public plan option?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 22, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Over the next few years, health reform will succeed or fail based on a few major flashpoints that will shape... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part III
Special interest groups masquerade as ordinary citizens
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 19, 2008 at 01:48 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Only in America
Insurance for the insured who become uninsured
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 18, 2008 at 02:27 PM
During the campaign, as the candidates sparred over health care, it became clear that the reform they had in mind... More
Did the Press Hear What We Heard?
The media bury some important news on Obama’s health plan
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2008 at 01:51 PM
Barack Obama wants to do something about the health care mess, and soon. He said so at his press conference... More
Some Good Health Coverage at Local Papers
Laurels in El Paso, Dayton, and Colorado Springs
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 9, 2008 at 12:20 PM
In an age when newspapers are supposed to be dying, and small papers are supposed to be dead by now... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part II
What lurks under the insurers’ gesture of friendship?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2008 at 01:00 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Conseco Redux
What lessons does the Pennsylvania insurance mess have for health reform?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 5, 2008 at 01:27 PM
My colleague Ryan Chittum called attention this week to the maneuver by Conseco Senior Health Insurance Co. to rid itself... More
Baucus Watch, Part III
Montana reporter digs deep into the senator’s white paper
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Let’s Hear It for Penalizing the Uninsured
The Daily Oklahoman passes along some suggestions
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2008 at 09:04 AM
It would have been really, really nice had the Daily Oklahoman given a few more details about suggestions made by... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part I
Drug companies eye a large chair
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Who Will Be at the Table?
Drug companies eye a large chair
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 20, 2008 at 12:00 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Health Care Lessons From California
Arnold offers his wisdom on reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 18, 2008 at 04:29 PM
Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger offered Barack Obama a helping hand. While he hadn’t... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Theodore Marmor
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 17, 2008 at 09:56 AM
The health care discussion of the past year has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Theodore Marmor
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 17, 2008 at 09:56 AM
The health care discussion of the past year has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that... More
Baucus Watch, Part II
What’s really inside the senator’s health-care white paper?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 13, 2008 at 02:30 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
A Laurel to the Philadelphia Inquirer
And its excellent series showing the plight of the uninsured
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM
It’s easy now for the coverage of health care to slip into the tried and true—horse race accounts of who’s... More
Two New Story Lines for Health Care
A march to victory or a rollback of ambitions?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 10, 2008 at 09:45 AM
Dear members of the public, take your pick. Will major health care reform will happen, or will there be only... More
Huckabee on Health, Again
The preacher and his sermon
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM
A year ago, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was out on the stump talking about health care and everything else.... More
Baucus Watch
A key senator on health reform holds a listening session
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 4, 2008 at 02:24 PM
Sen. Max Baucus holds the keys to health reform. He’s chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; any health care legislation... 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)
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.
