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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
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part III
What we can learn from the Brits
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 6, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. Since the Institute of Medicine published... More
An Interview with Don Barlett
What journo newbies (and the rest of us) can learn from an old master
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 30, 2011 at 10:00 AM
After writing nearly 500 posts over the last few years on health care, Medicare, and Social Security, I have observed... More
On the Health Policy Beat
With the Boston Globe’s Kay Lazar
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 13, 2011 at 12:12 PM
As we head into a new presidential campaign with health care likely to be one of the defining issues, Campaign... More
Jon Huntsman’s Vision for the Future of Medicare
Whose moral obligation is it?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 9, 2011 at 12:49 PM
Potential presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed was thoroughly predictable, containing lots of the acceptable phrases for... More
Memo to Joe Nocera
Getting the facts right on Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 6, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Dear Joe: It was good to see your column on Medicare in The New York Times the other day. I... More
The Intense Health Reform Drama in the Maine Legislature
What are its implications for the rest of the nation?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 3, 2011 at 10:43 AM
If the old political adage “as goes Maine, so goes the nation” has any currency these days, health insurers may... More
Medicare’s Real Cost Problem
Covering Medicare, part six
By Trudy Lieberman May 31, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
More from Candidate Pawlenty
A glimmer or two of context from the media
By Trudy Lieberman May 26, 2011 at 03:12 PM
It’s hard to know what to make of Tim Pawlenty, the Gopher State’s ex-governor, tramping around the country building his... More
A Beat Memo on Medicare
Is the Ryan plan really so novel?
By Trudy Lieberman May 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Means-Testing Medicare, According to CQ
Covering Medicare, part five
By Trudy Lieberman May 23, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Challenging Newt’s Medicare Walkback
Choice is the least of Medicare’s problems
By Trudy Lieberman May 18, 2011 at 03:58 PM
Poor Newt Gingrich! What a beating he’s taken since he said on Meet the Press Sunday that Paul Ryan’s scheme... More
Candidate Pawlenty and Social Security
What’s he really talking about?
By Trudy Lieberman May 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM
Not long ago, presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty sat down with reporters from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for a heart-to-heart about his... More
Romney and His Health Care Plan
Does he or doesn’t he like what he did?
By Trudy Lieberman May 13, 2011 at 02:26 PM
It would seem that the press coverage of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Michigan yesterday was greater than media... 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?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
