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The Times finds the people angle on Social Security
A human story clarifies a policy question
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM
It was good to see The New York Times publish the kind of story we have been urging—one that describes... More
The word on the street: insecure
Listening to voters in Omaha’s Old Market
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Last week I found myself in Omaha, at the city’s Old Market, hoping to visit with some of the locals... More
What was CNN Money thinking?
A Q&A on retirement issues sows confusion
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 8, 2012 at 07:00 AM
It’s hard to say what was the point of CNN Money’s latest contribution to the retirement debate. The site's Q&A... More
A superb expose about an unsafe medical device
The OC Register lays bare a lax approval system that hurts patients
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 7, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Tony Saavedra and Courtney Perkes, reporters for The Orange County Register, deserve a laurel for their superb piece about harmful... More
The word on the street: frustrated
Listening to voters at a Pennsylvania Walmart
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 1, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Last week a NBC News/Marist poll showed President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a tight race in Florida and... More
Talking back to Alan Simpson
The press picks up on his latest salvo. More, please?
By Trudy Lieberman May 31, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, as followers of the entitlements debate know, is, shall we say, tart-tongued and gutsy. Or,... More
A Grand Bargain on entitlements?
The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2012 at 02:35 PM
To the average person, Nancy Pelosi’s May 20 interview with George Stephanopoulos probably seemed like standard procedure for a Sunday... More
The new medical-credit racket
The Record uncovers how patients are getting shafted—medically and financially
By Trudy Lieberman May 24, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Reporter Lindy Washburn, at The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey, has revealed the latest shenanigans of unscrupulous members of... More
Medicare and the $500 billion bogeyman
Will a half-truth still work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Republicans and their allies are dusting off an old $500 billion deception about Medicare, trying once more to scare seniors... More
Health costs: Is Mass. the only model?
What about Vermont? (Not to mention Maryland)
By Trudy Lieberman May 15, 2012 at 03:19 PM
We all know Obamacare is Romneycare and Romneycare is Obamacare and that the Bay State has set the standard for... More
How an anti-tax HIT squad employs the press
“We’re pitching things and hope people run it. We’re not paying for ads”
By Trudy Lieberman May 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM
The small-business community has revved up its campaign to repeal a tax on insurance companies intended to help finance subsidies... More
Healthcare: Do Americans get too much—or too little?
A shout-out to Remapping Debate
By Trudy Lieberman May 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
We’ve become accustomed of late to stories telling us we get too much healthcare. We get too much of the... More
Memo to Kevin Drum
Mediocre stories about Social Security are not okay
By Trudy Lieberman May 3, 2012 at 04:55 PM
Dear Kevin: I have not written to you before, but I do know your work from the health reform debate.... More
Memo to Joe Nocera
Re: your vanishing retirement nest egg
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 30, 2012 at 02:01 PM
Dear Joe: I have written to you before. The subject was Medicare, and how tricky it is to cover it.... More
Report Card on Social Security Trust Fund Coverage
An F for the headlines; a C- for the stories
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2012 at 02:17 PM
This week, Social Security trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial health. The news was expected: Social Security... More
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate
The press plays a dubious role
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 18, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, Washington Post budget correspondent Lori Montgomery reported that, while a debate raged around... More
EXTRA Unpacks the Media’s Medicare Coverage
Are journalists writing for doctors or for patients?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 17, 2012 at 04:09 PM
I don’t know Amy Poe, a writer and Medicare consumer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. But I like a piece... More
The War of the Dentists and their Competitors
A shout-out to Kansas Public Radio
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 13, 2012 at 06:15 AM
Every once in a while an interesting, well-done piece from public radio comes along that makes you think. This week... More
WellPoint Raises Rates Again
And the national press looks the other way
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 6, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Anthem Blue Cross—a subsidiary of WellPoint, the country’s second largest insurer—and its 39 percent rate increase in California became somewhat... More
The Case of the Disappearing Benefits Statements
A good piece from the Los Angeles Times
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik deserves a shout-out for his strong piece on how the government is keeping Americans... 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?
If cable is dying, why is it still making so much money?
The story behind one of the best business models in the country
What TVGuide.com watchlist data reveals about the season’s new dramas
“What was once genre is now the Zeitgeist”
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
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.
