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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
Covering Joe
Is Lieberman a villain, or just taking care of the folks at home?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2009 at 04:20 PM
Any student of politics or any journalist who covers politics knows that members of Congress look out for their constituents,... More
A Shout-out to the Associated Press
For exposing a big loophole in the health reform bill
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 15, 2009 at 09:19 AM
Back in August, Campaign Desk pointed out that President Obama’s much-ballyhooed consumer protections required the media’s critical eye as legislation... More
The Next Most Underreported Health Reform Story
What will happen to SCHIP?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 14, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Where are the chips falling, so to speak, when it comes to the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)?... More
The Botox Beat
Using the press to fight a proposed tax on cosmetic surgery
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 9, 2009 at 11:19 AM
First came the medical device makers and now the plastic surgeons. Both groups have a problem. You see, Congress wants... More
What’s So Public about a Public Plan?
The language says it all
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 8, 2009 at 12:28 PM
Word comes from Politico that maybe—just maybe—the Senate is nearing a deal on the public option. You remember—that larger-than-life legislative... More
The Most Underreported Health Reform Story
And the senator from Nebraska
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 7, 2009 at 07:00 AM
Friday night the Senate gave grudging support to a provision in its health reform bill—the so-called CLASS Act, short for... More
The Headlines Tell Us Everything
The Congressional Budget Office weighs in on premiums
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 4, 2009 at 02:05 PM
The release of the Congressional Budget Office’s report this week predicting how health reform might affect insurance premiums dished up... More
Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Cost Controls
What miracle will bring down the price of medical care?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 3, 2009 at 08:00 AM
At this point in the health reform debate, press coverage is beginning to sound a lot like 1993-94, when the... More
The Man in the Middle
What Jeremy Devor’s story tells us about health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Meet Jeremy Devor, a technician with an associate degree in engineering, who lives in Salem, Illinois, a town of about... More
Missing Persons Redux
Insuring those at the very bottom
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 25, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Last Monday night, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer devoted air time to an exchange between two former secretaries of Health... More
The Devil in the Details, Part III
Is this really insurance reform?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2009 at 08:07 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
Ron Wyden Speaks Out
Straight talk on affordability from Oregon’s senior senator
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 23, 2009 at 09:22 AM
On Friday, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden got the Senate health care duo, Max Baucus and Harry Reid, to agree that... More
Laurel to the Missoulian
For telling the human story of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 18, 2009 at 04:10 PM
Last Sunday, the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana did what Campaign Desk has been urging papers to do--it showed how its... More
Missing Persons
How will reform affect ordinary folks?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM
Come on now. We’ve heard enough about the political horserace of health reform—way too much of Nancy, Max, and Olympia.... 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.
