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Michelle Malkin vs. Reality
Copying Betty White
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 22, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Readers of Investor’s Business Daily were treated to an op-ed recently by columnist Michelle Malkin, who was apparently making a... More
Chipping Away at Health Reform, Part II
Ron Wyden’s lost program
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Throughout the health care debate, Oregon senator Ron Wyden worried whether Americans who will be required to buy health insurance... More
Chipping Away at Health Reform
Some not-so-great news for consumers
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 19, 2011 at 09:47 AM
The health reform law, aka the Affordable Care Act, took a hit last week. Many journos, though, were apparently snoozing.... More
Health Care in the Real World
A lesson for the fuzzy-headed bureaucrats—and for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 13, 2011 at 07:11 AM
Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new... More
A Good Social Security Story—At Last
Reuters shows it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More
Covering Medicare Archive
A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Covering Medicare” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM
This is an archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Covering Medicare" articles, presented in descending order. 08/15/12: Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond:... More
Covering Medicare, Part I
A mixed performance from the press
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 7, 2011 at 04:07 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. Without... More
Reporting on High-Deductible Plans
A shout-out to two in the MSM
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 5, 2011 at 03:24 PM
A tip of the topper to two reporters who took a good look at high-deductible health plans—the kind that can... More
A Missing Health Policy Story
A “study says” piece gets short shrift
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 4, 2011 at 12:29 PM
The most underreported health story of this past week was, in my view, one that came out of the RAND... More
Another Cozy TV-Hospital Partnership
Will the practice ever end?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Once more, a large hospital system has climbed in bed with a friendly TV station to promote high-end services, using... More
A New Entry in the Health Care Lexicon
Beware of “centralized medical planning”
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 29, 2011 at 04:23 PM
Lawrence Hunter, a contributor on Forbes.com, took on President Obama the other day, listing a number of White House initiatives... More
A Shout Out to the Times’s Thomas Kaplan
For a truthful tale about medical malpractice reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 28, 2011 at 02:10 PM
The New York Times’s man in Albany, Thomas Kaplan, is on the malpractice case—that is, the state legislature’s efforts to... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall at NYU
Students know little about the health law
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 24, 2011 at 01:00 PM
It is birthday week for the Affordable Care Act, the official name of the health reform law passed a year... More
Tom Friedman Declares War
A bum rap for the elderly
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2011 at 01:46 PM
Tom Friedman was his usual glib self in Sunday’s New York Times, arguing that the two political parties “would rather... More
Excluded Voices: Health Care Costs
An interview with Dr. Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM
During the health reform debate, we periodically presented Q and A interviews with health care experts whose voices were scarce.... More
Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”
Its reporting on Social Security is anything but
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2011 at 04:48 PM
It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position... More
Disaster in Japan
And thoughts on its national health system
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Images of the devastation in northeastern Japan reminded me of the time I rode the Shinkansen—the bullet train that raced... More
Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety, Part II
A shout-out to the Columbia Tribune
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 10, 2011 at 04:14 PM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. When the Institute of Medicine published... More
Romney on the Stump
Health care’s not my baby, he says
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 8, 2011 at 02:04 PM
Mitt Romney has come out swinging against the health care plan he helped create, tackling the issue head on during... More
The Doctors vs. the Lawyers
Whose side is the Times on?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 7, 2011 at 10:46 AM
The New York Times came forth last week with an intriguing political story—but a puzzling piece of journalism. The story... 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.
