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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
Trudy Lieberman Entitlement Reform Archive
A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s articles on Social Security reform and Obama’s deficit commission
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 03:58 PM
This is a list of every article on the subject of entitlement reform that Trudy Lieberman has written for Campaign... More
Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM
1. The "Baucus Watch" series: Sixteen posts that describe the machinations, in-fighting, and political pressure on the Senate Finance Committee... More
Setting the Record Straight
The president, the press, and the public option
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM
In an interview with The Washington Post yesterday, President Barack Obama rejected criticism that he had compromised too much just... More
An Oops at USA Today
Exactly what was Ben Nelson’s position?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 22, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Waiting in a train station in Bath, England, yesterday as I wondered what was happening with health reform, I spotted... More
The Devil in the Details, Part IV
Who benefits from wellness incentives—an overweight colleague, your boss, insurers, or you?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 17, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... 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.
