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Groundhog Day
Why this year’s health-care debate sounds like the one in 1993
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 15, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Last fall, soon after Barack Obama was elected president, Sheila Burke was waiting to discuss Obama’s campaign promises, via Webcast,... More
Hospital Disconnect
USA Today offers news you can use, but a little more context, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 14, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Walking down the jetway to the 747 in Paris the other day, I spotted a copy of USA Today. One... More
Health Care in France—and in America
A journalist’s observations
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 13, 2009 at 10:58 AM
Welcome back to America, I said to myself after a two-week trip to France. Yes, I did think about health... More
Memo to Sen. Barbara Boxer—and Journalists, Too
More skepticism about savings from preventive care, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Sen. Barbara Boxer was defiant. As Campaign Desk reported recently, the gentle lady from California said in no uncertain terms... More
Health Care Flashpoints, Part III
Taxing insurance benefits and health care equity
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM
Over the next few months, health reform will succeed or fail based on a few major flashpoints that will shape... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Wendell Potter
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 24, 2009 at 05:30 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part X
We finally hear from the business community
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 23, 2009 at 03:02 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
What Journalists Can Learn from Celinda Lake
Wisdom from the Democrats’ wordsmith
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 22, 2009 at 02:59 PM
First there was Frank Luntz. Now, Celinda Lake is trying to do for the Dems what Luntz did for the... More
Baucus Watch, Part XI
The first glimpse of what he has brought forth
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 19, 2009 at 04:00 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
Cost Savings Myopia
Making the numbers fit the script
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM
The Hill’s Alexander Bolton gave us a glimpse of the budget games some members of Congress will happily play to... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Rutgers professor Louise Russell
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 16, 2009 at 09:47 AM
This past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Stephanopoulos A-; Sebelius D
George bests the Secretary of Health and Human Services
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Campaign Desk was pleased to see This Week’s George Stephanopoulos try to pin down HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday. The... More
Health Care Flashpoints, Part II
The individual mandate—when journalism becomes a lobbying tool
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 12, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Over the next few months, health reform will succeed or fail based on a few major flashpoints that will shape... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part III
Rapidly rising medical costs jeopardize the state’s insurance miracle
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 10, 2009 at 01:16 PM
Three years ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part IX
PhRMA and the AMA join forces with insurers
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 8, 2009 at 02:23 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Postscript on Single Payer
The San Francisco Chronicle offers some respectability
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM
For months, single-payer advocates have been marginalized by a political establishment which has already defined the boundaries of this round... More
What a Young Reporter Learned from the UAW
Lessons about health care and other matters
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 2, 2009 at 11:35 AM
There was a poignancy to Paul Solman’s News Hour interview Thursday with Ron Gettelfinger, the president of the United Auto... More
Baucus Watch, Part X
Disagreements surface among the Dems
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health care reform; any health care... More
What the Heck Do the Senators Mean?
More clues about a public plan
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2009 at 02:44 PM
Right before the holiday weekend, Ohio senator Sherrod Brown and twenty-seven other Democratic senators introduced a sense of the Senate... More
Single-Payer Advocates Finally Get Their Say
Montana papers lead the way
By Trudy Lieberman May 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Twice this month, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has tossed single-payer advocates out of his finance committee hearings on health reform.... 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.
