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McCain’s Health Proposals Under a Microscope, Part IV
Selling insurance across state lines—cheaper premiums or skimpy benefits?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 1, 2008 at 11:42 AM
This is the fourth entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in... More
Comparing Ohio and Ontario by the Numbers
The Beacon Journal points to better health stats in Canada
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
A Laurel to the Akron Beacon Journal and reporter David Knox for a well-done piece showing that, healthwise, the Buckeye... More
Battle For the Grassroots
Campaign for an American Solution vs. Health Care for America Now
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 25, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Timothy Noah over at Slate succinctly summed up the impending war over health reform. The lines of battle will be... More
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part III
How will the sick obtain coverage?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 24, 2008 at 11:21 AM
This is the third entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in... More
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope, Part II
Who’s making the medical decisions, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM
This is the second entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in... More
McCain’s Health Proposals Under the Microscope
Ending employer-based insurance as we know it?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 14, 2008 at 11:00 AM
This is the first entry in a series examining John McCain’s health proposals and how they have been covered in... More
One Step Forward, One Step Back
The AP gets it right on universal coverage, but new code words loom
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Score one for the Associated Press! We at CJR have been posting for some time about the misuse of the... More
Where Have All the Doctors Gone?
Finding out would make a good story for the summer lull
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 8, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Despite all the campaign chatter about reducing health care costs by sending folks to the doctor more often for preventive... More
Memo To Health Care Reporters
Explain what the terms “national” and “universal” really mean, and what Obama’s plan really does
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 7, 2008 at 09:46 AM
Too many recent health care stories have been confusing the terms “national” and “universal,” and using the term universal to... More
At Last: A Good, Issue-Driven Health Care Story
The Catholic Courier makes things clear for readers
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 3, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Too often during this campaign season health care stories have failed to explain the real issues in health reform. Oh... More
Please, ABC, Tell Us What This Story Is About
Another Obama flip-flop? Or just a plan that insurers will support?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 1, 2008 at 01:59 PM
A Dart to ABCNews.com for a muddled mess of a story that may be interesting to Beltway health cognoscenti, but... More
More Questions About Massachusetts Health Care
And some fine coverage from the State House News Service
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 27, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Kudos to Kyle Cheney of the State House News Service for a wicked good piece published in the Belmont (Mass.)... More
Grassroots Support for Single Payer
Some in the media find their rallies worthy of coverage
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 24, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Crossing what has become the acceptable boundary for discussion about health reform, the media turned out last Thursday to cover... More
What Are the Odds for Health Reform?
Betting against the house: the medical industrial complex and its political allies
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 23, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Warning flags are up again! Despite all the well-documented problems people have in getting insurance, staying insured, getting care that... More
A Tale of Two Visions — For Health Reform
McClatchy newspapers miss the story line
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 19, 2008 at 09:14 AM
Earlier this week, Publius, a blogger at Obsidian Wings, took McClatchy’s Washington bureau to task for a story that described... More
The High Cost of Health Care
Do journalists deserve some of the blame?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 17, 2008 at 08:40 AM
What the heck, you may be asking, do journalists have to do with the soaring costs of pharmaceuticals or a... More
On Health Care, a Warning from the States
Big talk of reform dried up in the legislatures
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 16, 2008 at 08:22 AM
The news from the states about reforming health care is less than promising. You might even call it grim, foreshadowing... More
Turning Point: Health Care
He said/she said is bad medicine. Time to dive in to analysis
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM
This is part six of a series on the start of the 2008 presidential election’s general campaign. Links to the... More
How Not to Cover a Speech
In health care, challenge the bromides
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 9, 2008 at 08:43 AM
The Roanoke Times ran a story on Friday about Barack Obama’s campaign kickoff in Southwest Virginia. It’s the kind of... More
Inside the Insurers’ Bag of Tricks
Two newspapers take a hard look
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 4, 2008 at 02:59 PM
Back in February we praised the Los Angeles Times and its reporter, Lisa Girion, for tailing California’s big health insurers... 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.
