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The Kind of Medicare Story We’d Rather Not See
SmartMoney runs a lackluster listicle
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 23, 2011 at 01:44 PM
Anyone reading SmartMoney’s take on Medicare would want to get granny off the program in New York minute. It was... More
A Rate-Regulation Case Study in Pennsylvania
When insurance rates are news—and when they are not
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2011 at 04:26 PM
What’s so interesting about insurance rate regulation, and why is it worth reporting on? The topic has everything to do... More
The Coverage of Wyden-Ryan, Round One
Consensus building to privatize Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 19, 2011 at 01:59 PM
Robert Pear’s New York Times piece “Support Builds for a Plan To Rein In Medicare Costs” seemed like a leak.... More
Pinning Down the President
Challenging Obama for overpromising on health care
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2011 at 05:48 PM
In an interview with President Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night, it was apparent Steve Kroft was taking his questioning... More
NPR and its Men-on-the-Street
Whom should we talk to?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 14, 2011 at 02:00 PM
It seemed that Mike H., a frequent visitor to CJR.org, had a point. He commented the other day on one... More
Morning Edition Connects With Regular People
But is anybody listening in Washington, DC?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2011 at 02:14 PM
The other day NPR did some solid man-on-the-street reporting, and found—as we have found in our ongoing Town Hall series—the... More
The Murky Politics of the Payroll Tax
The media begin to step in the muck
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2011 at 04:21 PM
Each day the payroll tax saga gets more complicated, and the public no doubt gets more confused. Bloomberg reporter Brian... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Voices of the occupiers on Centennial Mall
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 5, 2011 at 03:38 PM
George Packer’s superb New Yorker article about the Wall Street Occupiers is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand... More
Switching Sides on Social Security
Look who’s getting rid of the payroll tax
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM
What to do about those FICA contributions, aka payroll taxes, now that the supercommittee has blown up? Last Christmas the... More
Romney’s Marie Antoinette Moment
What, let them have health care?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 28, 2011 at 12:13 PM
The lede of the Boston Globe’s campaign story a few days ago was explicit: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday... More
A Shoutout to MarketWatch
For a report that examined the future of long-term care
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 17, 2011 at 01:23 PM
Last week, MarketWatch did the kind of report we have been urging the media to do on a subject they’d... More
A Laurel to the AP
For its eye-opening story on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM
The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More
WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece
Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM
By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More
The “Government Takeover of Health Care” Is Baaaack!
Chris Christie waves the bloody shirt
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 3, 2011 at 01:22 PM
A “government takeover of health care” is back. At least it is in the mind of New Jersey governor Chris... More
The Massachusetts Disconnect
Another health reform lesson from the Bay State
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2011 at 03:27 PM
Much of the national press took a pass last week on another important “study says” story out of Massachusetts. This... More
AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care
More reporting needed from the wire service
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 25, 2011 at 01:18 PM
When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program... More
The Human Faces behind the Social Security Rhetoric
Good work from CBS News
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 21, 2011 at 01:50 PM
Finally, a mainstream media outlet has broken through the dominant narrative about Social Security and showed what the program means... More
Requiem for the CLASS Act
Long-term care program’s death sends signals the press isn’t receiving
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 17, 2011 at 01:48 PM
On Friday, the stepchild of health reform died at the hands of the Obama administration, and the obits for the... More
Good Work from the Times on Rate Increases
Shedding light on insurance company secrets
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Proving that not every story has to be a zillion words long or analyze a zillion data points to break... More
CJR’s Assignment Desk, Part I
Hospitals sell emergency room care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 12, 2011 at 11:11 AM
This summer, Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News wrote an intriguing piece published in The Washington Post about hospitals that... 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.
