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Parsing Romney on healthcare
Chris Wallace gets a C minus
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Before Chris Wallace got to the soft stuff of his Fox News Sunday interview last week with The Family Romney... More
A dart to the AP—and a laurel!
Good work on fact-checking speeches; on Social Security, not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Dart The Associated Press misled its many readers, unfortunately, about what is a Social Security benefit cut and what... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
The word on the street: apprehensive
Listening to voters talk about Medicare in St. Louis
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM
The idea of privatizing Medicare is not winning popularity contests with voters. A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday found... More
Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman
Will a new version of a half-truth work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM
It’s been hard to escape from Medicare in the 11 days since Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan burst into the news... More
Profits vs. patients: The Tampa Bay Times complicates a story
The truth in medical disputes can be hard to find
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM
The Tampa Bay Times, formerly known as The St. Petersburg Times, deserves a shout-out for jumping on the local angle... More
When hospital profits clash with patient care: an investigation
The Times exposes questionable care at HCA hospitals
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM
This week The New York Times concluded a rare look at the inner workings of the country’s biggest for-profit hospital... More
Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer
Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 15, 2012 at 03:25 PM
Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social... More
How to measure the worth of Social Security
The AP rehashes an old idea
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 9, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Is Social Security a good deal for workers? That’s the question the AP posed in an August 5 piece dredging... More
Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy
Channeling the inner wonk
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
What makes Paul Ryan tick?
The New Yorker defines the man who would remake the government
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
For those closely observing the attacks on Medicare and Social Security, Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile piece in the August... More
Romney likes Israeli healthcare
And the press takes a look at what it is. Whoa!
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Thanks to Mitt Romney’s laudatory remarks about the Israeli health system during his trip to Israel, we now know a... More
Would the GOP turn away from the uninsured?
NPR identifies the party’s new thinking
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM
NPR’s Julie Rovner deserves a shout-out for identifying what may be the GOP’s new thinking about healthcare—abandon the goal of... More
Does journalistic ‘balance’ hurt America?
What if Washington’s dysfunction was mostly one party’s fault: A Q&A with Thomas Mann
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 31, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,... More
Medicare and misinformation
Is my premium rising? A beat memo for reporters
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Two weeks ago a Midwest businessman sent an email to a long list of his senior friends warning that their... More
False balance and the Medicare scare
Who’s been telling the truth in Florida?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Last Thursday the president made a campaign stop in Florida, and—surprise, surprise—he talked about Medicare. Or at least he talked... More
The specter of ‘Socialized Medicine’ rides again
In the Massachusetts Senate race, no less
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 23, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Now that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and its system of private insurance, private doctors,... More
A hunger for the food-stamp story
Some 45 million Americans use them—Who are they?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM
The press has shown only sporadic interest in the farm bill, a vast, important piece of legislation that must be... More
The healthcare whatyamacallit
What’s a reporter to call that payment thing—tax or penalty?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act handed journalists something of a semantic dilemma. What do we call... More
The Palm Beach Post exposes a hidden menace
Government cutbacks and the worst TB epidemic in 20 years
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Reporting on tuberculosis is not most reporters’ idea of a glamor assignment. It’s an ancient disease, drug companies aren’t keen... 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?”
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies
Hastings was fearless and shook things up - especially with his McChrystal expose. The haters in the media couldn’t forgive him
Journalism is about finding flaws and magnifying them, and surely someone who would spill massive loads of state secrets must contain a few broken parts, right?
Call it the Politico rhetorical crutch
The inside-the-beltway publication’s go-to phrase
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.
