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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
A Laurel to the Columbus Dispatch
A newspaper gets real with real people
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 24, 2008 at 09:31 AM
We at CJR have long urged news outlets to consider at how the candidates’ proposals will affect real people. To... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VII
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 22, 2008 at 12:46 PM
This is the seventh in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part VI
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 17, 2008 at 03:07 PM
This is the sixth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live... More
McCain Under the Microscope
A major news outlet takes a look at his health plan—finally!
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 16, 2008 at 05:41 PM
In his column Tuesday, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert peered into John McCain’s health plan, something we have been... More
Which Little Piggy Got Left Out?
What Elizabeth Edwards said about John McCain’s health plan
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2008 at 10:21 AM
The big question of the campaign yesterday: Was Barack Obama referring to Sarah Palin or the policies of John McCain... More
A Laurel To NPR
Strong coverage on health care issues
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 10, 2008 at 11:31 AM
NPR has done some fine health reporting recently, the kind that we hope will spur others to do similar stories.... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part V
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM
This is the fifth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live... More
Bad News, Bad Story
How about some clarity from the AP?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2008 at 09:46 AM
I know news stories are getting shorter. But an Associated Press health care story last week did a disservice to... More
Dissing Elizabeth Edwards
The media miss the real story—her health care message
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Charlotteobserver.com ran a piece Sunday written by a reporter at the Raleigh News & Observer that criticized Elizabeth Edwards. Her... More
McCain Surrogates Take To The Press
Shame on the Dallas Morning News
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 2, 2008 at 09:33 AM
The Dallas Morning News should have known better than to run a news story last week that was essentially an... More
Postscript on Harry and Louise
Health reform takeaways from the convention
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 28, 2008 at 01:10 PM
On Monday, I mentioned the latest television commercial featuring Harry and Louise—the infamous TV couple who periodically take to the... More
The Obamas and the Chicago Hospital Controversy
What it really says about health care
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 26, 2008 at 02:34 PM
As excitement mounted for the Democratic convention at the end of last week, The Washington Post published one of those... More
Harry and Louise Are Back Again
But the media miss the important subtext
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 25, 2008 at 09:56 AM
Fred Mogul, a health reporter at WNYC, called to discuss the latest Harry and Louise comeback. The infamous duo appeared... More
Health Care on the Mississippi, Part IV
Real people and the candidates’ plans
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 25, 2008 at 09:36 AM
This is the fourth in a series examining how the candidates’ health care proposals will affect ordinary people who live... 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?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
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.
