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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
Divining Medicare’s Future
CBS takes a crack at what’s in store for seniors
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 3, 2008 at 12:25 PM
CBS has spent a good bit of air time telling viewers where the candidates stand on the issues. And, to... More
Health Care Rationing Explained
The Syracuse Post-Standard dares to widen the debate
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM
By now, most media accounts of the health proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama have grown stale and, frankly,... More
Now Who’s Crafting a Secret Health Plan?
Is Ted Kennedy really proposing socialized medicine?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Word comes from The Washington Times, in what the paper calls an “exclusive”, that Sen. Edward Kennedy has been secretly... More
Paging Dr. Gupta
How CNN’s doc misdiagnosed McCain’s health plan
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Perhaps CNN’s in-house doctor, Sanjay Gupta, ought to stick to things medical. Gupta’s attempt to explain John McCain’s health plan... More
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tries to Redeem Itself
A better job on health care, but still a ways to go
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM
As part of an ongoing series examining what the candidates’ plans might mean for Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution took another... More
Who’s Cutting What in Medicare?
A missing campaign issue suddenly surfaces
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2008 at 12:15 PM
All of a sudden last week Medicare zoomed atop the list of acceptable campaign talk. It started with an early... More
And Now From the Heartland….
KOLN/KGIN tries to explain health care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 15, 2008 at 11:29 AM
You could say it wasn’t the greatest story, but, hey, a TV station taking a crack at health care is... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IX
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2008 at 02:48 PM
This is the ninth and final entry in a series that has examined how seven people who live in the... More
Health Care on the Mississippi Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care on the Mississippi” series, in descending order.... More
Let the Crystal-Balling Begin
More red meat needed from the Associated Press
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 13, 2008 at 12:24 PM
“John McCain’s health plan would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by about 21.1 million people if fully put in... More
Dissecting the Health Care Debate
What the candidates said and didn’t say
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2008 at 01:01 PM
Both John McCain and Barack Obama were expected to pound away at health care during last night’s debate, and, indeed,... More
Twelve Questions About Health Care for Tonight’s Debate
There’s more to talk about than taxing benefits
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2008 at 09:39 AM
We’ve been pleased to see that health care returned to the candidate’s stump speeches this weekend. Maybe voters are beginning... More
Who Will Do the Best Job on Health Care?
Neither candidate, say 40 percent of the voters. What gives?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 6, 2008 at 12:09 PM
A friend of mine asked if I thought Joe Biden was spinning health care to the Democrats’ advantage during last... More
Stephanopoulos Snoozes, Public Loses
How about a little help for your viewers, George?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 6, 2008 at 11:07 AM
What was the public to make yesterday of the health care repartee between Governors Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Ed... More
Sarah Palin on Health Care
Media take note: How about a good game of connect-the-dots?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2008 at 04:15 PM
Ordinary hockey mom, ordinary woman, ordinary American! And like ordinary folks on Main Street, she has had trouble buying health... More
A Sensitive Look at the Uninsured
Health care documentary drives home the financial crisis
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2008 at 10:04 AM
The people portrayed in the new documentary Critical Condition, which aired on PBS this week, are experiencing financial crises of... More
A Story That We’d Rather Not See
A cop-out at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 2, 2008 at 12:44 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution took the easy road on Sunday when it set out to enlighten readers about the health care... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VIII
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2008 at 01:13 PM
This is the eighth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live... More
In the Beginning
From a consumer movement to consumerism
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 25, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Last year, New York’s state legislature, which has historically led the nation in passing pro-consumer credit legislation, approved a pair... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
