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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
The AP Takes the Public’s Pulse
Covering Medicare, part four
By Trudy Lieberman May 9, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Single Sourcing on a Medicare Story at NPR
Covering Medicare, part three
By Trudy Lieberman May 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
Kudos to Remapping Debate
A refreshing take on a long-legged health reform story
By Trudy Lieberman May 2, 2011 at 09:59 AM
James Lardner deserves a loud shout-out for his piece about the movement—somewhat dormant until now—to make patients into consumers, meaning... More
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
Covering Medicare, Part II
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly
Shoppers on Market Street sound off
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM
Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... 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.
