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Infant Mortality, Abortion, and WellPoint’s Tonik Policy
It’s dot-connection time for the media
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2009 at 09:40 AM
First, there was last week’s news that the U.S. ranks thirtieth in the world when it comes to infant mortality.... More
The Doctors and the Disabled
Have the doctors won on fee cuts?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 9, 2009 at 09:18 AM
The American Medical Association was positively gleeful after the House bill passed, quickly issuing a statement on its Web site... More
The Disabled and the Doctors
People with disabilities will still have to wait for Medicare
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 9, 2009 at 09:17 AM
As members of Congress ticked off for the home crowds the general achievements of their narrowly passed bill Saturday, and... More
The Price of Medical Services
Is the conversation finally starting?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM
By now, most of the health care cognoscenti realize that we have not had a robust discussion of medical costs.... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part IX
What does the public say?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
The Devil in the Details, Part II
Who can afford health insurance after reform?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 2, 2009 at 09:51 AM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that, when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
The Times Misses the Mark
A health care lobbyist puff piece that goes nowhere
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
What could The New York Times have been thinking when it fronted a piece the other day serving up some... More
Dr. Coca-Cola on Call
The king of Coke teams up with the family docs
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 27, 2009 at 02:08 PM
One thing you have to say about the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is that it is... More
Truth Emerges about the Public Option
Who really will be allowed to join?
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George and his guests suddenly realized that the public option, whatever shape it... More
The Latest News from Massachusetts
Obama comes to talk about energy, not health care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM
It is surprising, as The Washington Post noted Friday, that President Obama paid a political visit to help Massachusetts Gov.... More
Who Will Be at the Table, Part XVII
The docs are back for their piece of the pie
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VIII
Unintended consequences for patients
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 20, 2009 at 08:31 AM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
CJR’s Town Hall Meetings, Part VI
The view from Union Station, Washington D.C.
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 15, 2009 at 05:30 AM
Everyone, it seems is trying to take the pulse of the electorate--Americans who, as the saying goes, vote with their... More
The Insurers’ Grand Strategy
More well-timed studies to influence the pols and the polls
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM
I have no pipeline to the insurance industry gods, but for more than a year now, I have watched their... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part XVI
Fighting a soda tax
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
WellPoint versus the State of Maine
Forget Olympia Snowe, there’s other news in the north country
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 9, 2009 at 12:48 PM
For weeks, the only health reform news from Maine has swirled around Sen. Olympia Snowe. Would the state’s senior senator... More
The Devil in the Details, Part I
The tug-of-war over penalties for not buying coverage
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Every lobbyist swarming Capitol Hill these days knows that when it comes to legislation, the devil is always lurking in... More
The Devil in the Details Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “The Devil in the Details” series, in descending order. 04/12/10:... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part VII
Unintended consequences for small business
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2009 at 01:01 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Baucus Watch, Part XVI
What we should have known all along
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... 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?”
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
The NSA story isn’t ‘journalistic malfeasance’
It’s a story that is evolving in real time
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.
