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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
Golden Teeth Redux
A Dallas TV station investigates the state’s Medicaid shenanigans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Obama’s disconnect with the voters
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living... More
Bad Omens for Health Care
Mixed coverage of the latest premium hikes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers... More
Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured
The national media pass on an important story
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health... More
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV
Sac Bee catches nursing home lies
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of... More
Perry Misleads on RomneyCare
Socialized medicine, really?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 19, 2011 at 01:08 PM
It's becoming clear that Rick Perry has never met a buzzword he doesn’t like. We’ve heard that Social Security is... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
