Author Archive
Articles by Trudy Lieberman | Email the Author
Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety
A Laurel to the Las Vegas Sun
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 2, 2010 at 03:52 PM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that hospitals are not always safe places. When the Institute of Medicine published... More
Hospital Safety Series
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s recurring series on hospital safety
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 2, 2010 at 03:36 PM
Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman's "Keeping an Eye on Hospital Safety" series, presented in descending... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Ronald Eaker
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 1, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Before the year ends, the president’s deficit commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More
Alan Simpson Does it Again
This time the press pays attention—sort of
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 26, 2010 at 02:22 PM
Alan Simpson, the co-chair of the president’s deficit commission, came up with another doozy Monday when he told Ashley Carson,... More
CJR Holds a Missouri Town Hall Meeting
Not many are wild about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM
Last August I visited the college town of Columbia, Missouri, and did man-on-the street interviews with small business owners, college... More
Those Social Security Code Words Again
The meaning behind the tweaks, privatization, and modest changes
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 19, 2010 at 01:11 PM
The Hill yesterday set the standard for coverage of the president’s remarks in a Columbus, Ohio, backyard town hall meeting.... More
More Codes in the Social Security War
WaPo unravels one and misses another
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 17, 2010 at 01:28 PM
The Washington Post, which at times has acted like the head media cheerleader for the president’s deficit commission, appeared to... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Lonnie Judy
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Before the year ends, the president’s fiscal commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More
Food Stamps and Health
Let’s not forget the connection between the two
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 11, 2010 at 03:52 PM
It’s hardly surprising that the nation’s news media haven’t sent forth a flood of stories about how Congress has cut... More
The Medicare Sales Job Moves Along
More media skepticism needed
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 9, 2010 at 03:25 PM
In his radio message this weekend, the president focused on Medicare, trying as hard as he might to convince skeptical... More
Consumer Advice for Retirement Savings
What was the Times trying to tell us?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM
“Social Security Jitters? Better Prepare Now,” read the headline of a money story in the New York Times last Saturday.... More
Social Security in the Heartland Archive
A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Social Security in the Heartland” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2010 at 11:05 AM
This is a complete archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Social Security in the Heartland" articles, listed in descending order. 12/22/10: Social... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jennifer Tayabji
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Before the year ends, the president’s fiscal commission will bring forth a plan for cutting the deficit. While commission co-chairs... More
Hurray for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For puncturing the secrecy around doctors’ mistakes
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 2, 2010 at 04:05 PM
It’s not often that editors let their reporters detail the steps they took to report a story, but a wonderfully... More
Sebelius Watch, Part IV
The press falls for the bait
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 30, 2010 at 10:28 AM
A few days ago, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came forth with one more goodie from the new reform law: the... More
Kudos to The New York Times
For revealing the contradictions in health and financial reform
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 28, 2010 at 10:16 AM
There’s been way, way too much follow-the-newsmaker reporting in recent weeks, with Obama’s acolytes trailing the procession to the promised... More
Paying Attention to Social Security
Two takes from the MSM
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 23, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Slowly, ever so slowly, the mainstream media is discovering the Social Security story. So it’s worth noting two pieces in... More
The Other Liz
Liz Fowler and the WellPoint connection
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM
The press has been abuzz lately about the possible appointment of Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to head the Federal... More
Social Security in Perspective
A conversation with Ted Marmor
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM
To hear the media tell it, you’d think most Americans agree that this country must drastically reform its Social Security... More
A Fresh Take on Health Care
Does reform solve the ER problem?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 13, 2010 at 10:58 AM
It all sounded so simple in the years leading up to health reform. The politicians, from the president on down,... 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)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
