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On the Social Security Battlefront
Reporters and their sources
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 17, 2010 at 05:11 PM
For months, Campaign Desk has observed that reporters covering health reform have used the same sources over and over. Now... More
The Devil in the Details, Part VI
Needed: a health care primer for Fox News
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 15, 2010 at 01:59 PM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
Regulating Health Care, Part II
Anthem Blue Cross exposes the holes in rate regulation
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 12, 2010 at 10:52 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Health Reform on C-SPAN
Is that really the issue?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 10, 2010 at 03:27 PM
Republicans waved a new flag of health reform opposition right after New Year’s, when Florida governor Charlie Crist attacked the... More
Is Health Reform Dead or Alive?
Wanted: a newsmaker to give us the word
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Last week, one Washington insider asked a Washington journalist why she had not written that health reform was dead. The... More
The Cost of Living Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 5, 2010 at 11:29 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Cost of Living” series, in descending order. 02/02/11:... More
The Cost of Living
How cardiologists used the press
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 5, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Containing the runaway cost of medical care is the thorniest of all the thorny issues in the health-reform debate. There’s... More
Reality Check at the NewsHour
Obama nationalizing health care? Hardly
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 1, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Republicans may have succeeded in stalling health care reform, at least for now. But that doesn’t mean the press should... More
A Path out of the Health Care Mess?
Still no guidance from the president
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM
As readers of Campaign Desk know, we have long questioned the president’s leadership on health care, his number one domestic... More
A Tale of Two Jonathans
Overusing sources and full disclosure—some lessons for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 28, 2010 at 09:21 AM
Jonathan Gruber is an economist from MIT. Jonathan Oberlander is a political scientist from the University of North Carolina. Both... More
The Devil in the Details, Part V
The disabled still must wait for Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
Re-examining Massachusetts Health Care
Post-election comments from the MSM miss the boat
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 22, 2010 at 01:06 PM
Wednesday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, Richard Parker, who lectures at Harvard’s Kennedy School, talked about his son’s hockey coach,... More
Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Race
What’s bothering folks up there, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 19, 2010 at 08:46 AM
When President Obama came to Massachusetts to rally the troops for Martha Coakley Sunday, he had little to say about... More
Who Was at the Table?
A clever lobbying tactic from the insurers
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 15, 2010 at 03:47 PM
No one can ever call the insurance lobby stupid. Last fall a pro-reform advocate was positively gleeful when she told... More
Regulating Health Care Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Regulating Health Care” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 15, 2010 at 10:48 AM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Regulating Health Care” series, in descending order. 03/08/10: Regulating... More
Regulating Health Care
Insurers and hospitals in Massachusetts snub the regulators
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2010 at 09:42 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Stumbling over the Cadillac Plan Tax
Stephanopoulos tries; Romer fumbles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 11, 2010 at 03:54 PM
If viewers were hungry for a little health care info yesterday from the talk shows, they wouldn’t have learned much... More
When Does a News Outlet Become a Press Agent?
Ben Nelson and the Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson has been in trouble with his constituents ever since he cast the crucial sixtieth vote to... More
Kudos to The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette
For localizing the health reform story
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 7, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Before Christmas, Kate Long, the writing coach for The Charleston Gazette, contacted me about the media’s disinterest in the Children’s... More
Dust-up at The Washington Post
And new questions about the new news services
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 04:05 PM
This weekend the Internet was all a-twitter over a piece that The Washington Post ran right before New Year’s, headlined:... 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?”
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
We’re the Uber of organ transplants
“Millennials need organ transplants that fit easily into their always-connected lifestyles”
‘What part of “Politico” do you not understand?’
A conversation about the dark art of driving the conversation
Julian Assange’s asylum stalemate no nearer resolution one year on
The Ecuadorean embassy’s celebrity refugee is used to living in what Assange likens to a space station as he battles extradition
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.
