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Laurel to the Tampa Tribune
For adding a fresh dimension to the Medicare Advantage story
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 10, 2009 at 08:26 AM
We were pleased to see the Tampa Tribune publish a smart, enterprising story that took a different angle on an... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Marilyn Moon
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 8, 2009 at 01:05 PM
The past year’s health discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated down... More
Obama AWOL on Health Reform?
Times tackles the President’s “light touch”
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 6, 2009 at 09:30 AM
Robert Pear of The New York Times, who almost always can be counted on to let the world know the... More
Sick Around America
What exactly was Frontline trying to say?
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 1, 2009 at 02:39 PM
It is not clear what message Frontline wanted to deliver in last night's Sick Around America documentary. The show, conceived... More
Some Big Dots to Connect
Which could tell who really will pay for health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 30, 2009 at 09:26 AM
In the past week or so, the media—at least those outlets that still cover health reform somewhat regularly—offered up some... More
Baucus Watch, Part VII
Does he or doesn’t he support a public plan?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 30, 2009 at 09:18 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Insurers Have a New Idea
Is it really for real?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 25, 2009 at 09:52 AM
The AP moved a story yesterday afternoon reporting that members of two health insurance trade associations, America’s Health Insurance Plans... More
What Are Insurers Up To?
It depends on whose story you read
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 25, 2009 at 09:43 AM
Two views of the insurance industry lobby emerged in the press the last couple of weeks—one an AP puff piece... More
Massachusetts Health Reform Archive
An archive of all entries in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2009 at 02:05 PM
Here are the links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts” series, in descending order. 03/03/10:... More
Health Reform Lessons from Massachusetts, Part I
Critical analysis begins to trickle in
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Three years ago the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted a far-reaching health reform law that politicians and the media hailed as... More
Laurel to The Philadelphia Inquirer
For parsing preexisting conditions
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 18, 2009 at 02:20 PM
A couple of decades ago, journalists at every paper and TV station, following the lead of The Wall Street Journal,... More
Time Offers Half a Loaf
Great health care story—but then what?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 12, 2009 at 01:29 PM
Reading Karen Tumulty’s compelling narrative about her brother’s illness and misadventures in the U.S. health care system in this week’s... More
The Takeaway from the Health Care Summit
New euphemisms for the press to avoid
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Tevi Troy, a visiting senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, writing on The Fox Forum, the news blog of Fox... More
Baucus Watch, Part VI
The senator’s thoughts on financing health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 6, 2009 at 02:03 PM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part VI
Single-payer advocates are almost left off the invite list
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 6, 2009 at 12:37 PM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Explaining COBRA
Let’s have some straight talk from the media
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM
The ways in which laid-off workers will be helped under the stimulus bill’s COBRA provisions continue to be of great... More
Wanted: More Skepticism at The New York Times
When the word “nonprofit” has a deeper meaning
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2009 at 02:50 PM
On Saturday, The New York Times’s new consumer feature, “Patient Money,” which discusses pocketbook issues relating to health care, tackled... More
Adieu, Medicare Advantage?
Another insurer gets in trouble
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 2, 2009 at 10:35 AM
A week or so ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ordered WellCare, the super-aggressive seller of Medicare... More
Where’s the Plan?
The media score well on their first-day budget stories
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Yesterday morning, a friend e-mailed asking for my take on the President’s plan for health reform. Perhaps she was looking... More
Mandating Health Coverage Makes a Comeback
The President and the man on the street
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Last night, with his voice full of force, the President boomed: “Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait,... 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.
