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Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra
The part of the story that the Times didn’t tell
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on... More
Rate Regulation Blow-up in California
WellPoint and co. win again
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any... More
Golden Teeth
Dallas’s WFAA shows crooked Medicaid spending on orthodontia
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 1, 2011 at 01:17 PM
These days it’s rare for local TV stations to produce anything resembling an expose. With their steady diet of crime,... More
The Facts Ma’am—Just the Facts
Rick Perry dodges Social Security questions, while CNBC explains
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 29, 2011 at 02:05 PM
Rick Perry zipped into Ottumwa, Iowa Saturday with a message about Social Security. Along with the usual jabs at the... More
Revisiting the Man in the Middle
Health reform won’t help him
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2011 at 03:44 PM
As the Great Health Care Debate wound down, we visited Jeremy Devor, an engineering assistant in Salem, Illinois, a town... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Missouri
Do the pols represent the voters?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2011 at 03:25 PM
As Barack Obama’s bus cruised through the heartland last week, the media told us a fair amount about what the... More
The Back Story on Medicare’s Wild Spending
The narrative unfolds, bit by bit
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2011 at 02:55 PM
It’s no secret Medicare spending is on a wild ride northward. The politicians--Dems and Republicans alike--tell us that every day.... More
Romney and His Corporate Man
A frivolous take from NPR
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 15, 2011 at 12:44 PM
It’s hard to say what was the point of NPR’s coverage of Mitt Romney’s visit to the Iowa State Fair.... More
A Hospital Story Not to Write
Doing the digging for real news
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2011 at 01:43 PM
My Association of Health Care Journalists colleague Charlie Ornstein likes to say that stories about hospital ribbon-cuttings, wings named for... More
Is Tim Pawlenty For Real?
The StarTribune suggests maybe he isn’t
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2011 at 01:03 PM
The Minneapolis StarTribune’s piece on presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty is the kind of story voters can expect to see at... More
Playing It Safe the McCaskill Way
David Gregory’s lame interview
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 4, 2011 at 11:48 AM
I guess it’s too much to hope that the Sunday morning news shows could ever rise above the typical blather... More
The Deficit Deal Defined
Is Medicare really safe?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 2, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett chatted with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC yesterday as part of a sales job for the deficit... More
Paul Krugman on Journalistic Balance
The missing voices
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 1, 2011 at 01:28 PM
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman addressed the cult of balance in the debt debate Friday when he wrote: News... More
Grandparent of the Chained CPI
Some stories never die
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 28, 2011 at 02:54 PM
Sarah Cohen, a professor at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke, and a one-time reporter for... More
Covering the Chained CPI
Let me count the ways it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 26, 2011 at 02:42 PM
There are five ways to cover the Chained CPI, a proposed new method for determining the cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments that... More
Social Security Cuts and the CLASS Act
Language, language, language
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 21, 2011 at 04:42 PM
If the MSM is to be believed, soon we will know what cuts Congress has in mind for Social Security,... More
A Shout Out to The Palm Beach Post
A rare glimpse into the ways of for-profit health care
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 20, 2011 at 02:32 PM
The Palm Beach Post deserves kudos for exposing how Florida governor Rick Scott conducted the business of his urgent care... More
A Medicare Miss at the LA Times
Some fact-checking, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 18, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to... More
Good and Bad from the NewsHour
Woodruff and Ifill begin to push the politicians—sort of
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 14, 2011 at 01:01 PM
The NewsHour presented an interesting program the other night and the program’s customary balance format actually produced some illuminating journalism.... More
Joe Lieberman and his Medicare Gift
The press needs to untie the bow—and quickly
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2011 at 01:00 PM
Leave it to Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman to speed along the process of making seniors on Medicare pay more for... 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?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
What grammar mistake do you find most annoying?
Are you sure that question is grammatical?
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again
What is the single most illuminating interview question to ask someone?
The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
