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The Devil in the Details, Part VII
Can insurers still dump you when you get sick?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Health reform is now the law of the land, and the 2,000 or so pages of the legislation contain lots... More
At Last, the Press Discovers the Consumer Story
How will health reform affect you and me?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM
A few days ago I stopped by a medical clinic in Greenwich Village; the waiting room was abuzz with talk... More
Bob Reich on the What-It-All Means Question
No paw prints of the Great Society here
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM
In a column yesterday on Talking Points Memo, former Secretary of Labor Bob Reich got to an issue that has... More
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
A P.S. on WellPoint
Deconstructing the insurer’s grassroots campaign
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM
Let it be known to friend and foe alike that WellPoint was at the health reform table. The ill-timed rate... More
The Meaning of Those CBO Numbers
Smoke and mirrors and the doctor fix
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers released at the end of last week gave the House Democrats the ammo they were... More
Social Security’s Code Words
Erskine Bowles takes the stage
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 19, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Those who consider themselves Social Security mavens know the name Erskine Bowles. Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, and currently... More
Parsing the AP’s Health Care Primer
Its attempt at informing falls short
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 17, 2010 at 03:31 PM
The Associated Press has been an important voice in the health care debate. So it was disappointing to see its... More
The President Pushes against Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
But what do those terms really mean?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM
The president has a sales job to do if he wants the American people to get behind whatever reform emerges... More
Is the Past Prologue?
The pedigree of Alan Simpson
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Before too many weeks pass, I want to comment on an illuminating Gray Matters column by Saul Friedman, an old... More
Medicare Kicks Out Fox Insurance
And therein lie some lessons for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 11, 2010 at 02:53 PM
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took strong action the other day when it kicked Fox Insurance out... More
What Was Sebelius Saying?
David Gregory didn’t probe too deeply
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 10, 2010 at 04:01 PM
The president and his staff have brought us to the stump-speech stage of health reform: the familiar talking points, the... More
Regulating Health Care, Part III
When is an insurance company too small to cover?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 8, 2010 at 11:12 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part X
Unintended consequences for low-income workers
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Four years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
The Cost of Living, Part III
Are the docs really going to drop their patients?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 1, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More
Takeaway from the Summit
Decoding what was said during yesterday’s health care reform meeting
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 26, 2010 at 03:36 PM
For weeks leading up to the president’s health care summit yesterday, the media tossed around phrases like ‘kabuki dance,’ ‘dog-and-pony... More
An Rx for Reporting
Yesterday’s strategies failed on the health-reform story. Now what?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 02:55 PM
Just before Christmas, a CNN poll asked Americans whether they favored or opposed the health-reform bills moving through Congress. Forty-two... More
The Cost of Living, Part II
A shout-out to the San Francisco Chronicle
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM
Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall Meeting
And finds a cross-section of public opinion on health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 22, 2010 at 04:37 PM
The polls continue to say that roughly half of Americans don’t support health reform. A Zogby poll finds that about... More
Sebelius Discovers More Rate Increases
And the press finally takes note
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 22, 2010 at 02:40 PM
We were pleased to see HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discover that high rate increases proposed by Anthem Blue Cross were... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
