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What the Stimulus Package Holds for Health Care
The devil indeed lurks in the details
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM
It’s not often that the media pay much attention to different versions of a bill when they emerge from the... More
Vetting Daschle’s Replacement
And the wisdom of the crowd
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 9, 2009 at 01:07 PM
Call it citizen journalism or citizen participation, but the Internet has been full of stories about Tom Daschle’s would-be replacement... More
Excluded Voices
An interview with Timothy Jost
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 9, 2009 at 07:00 AM
The past year’s health care discussion has been remarkable for the narrow range of ideas and opinions that have floated... More
Baucus Watch, Part V
Smoke signals—when exactly will health reform happen?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 6, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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 V
The hospitals begin to take their seats
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 3, 2009 at 10:20 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
Mr. Daschle and His Speaking Fees
What “policy advice” did he give to United Healthcare?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 2, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Only the naïve would expect a public official to be pure as an angel these days, what with today’s megabuck... More
Laurel to The Oregonian
Health care miracles that aren’t
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM
“Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles!” That pretty much describes the media’s approach to coverage of new drugs and medical... More
COBRA and Health Care Equity
It’s time for the press to connect some dots
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 26, 2009 at 09:27 AM
Remedies for America’s diseased health system tend to come incrementally—an approach that doesn’t disrupt the status quo but never quite... More
Baucus Watch Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Baucus Watch” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Baucus Watch” series, in descending order. 10/02/09: Baucus Watch,... More
Baucus Watch, Part IV
Lobbyists in white hats
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 23, 2009 at 09:12 AM
As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Max Baucus holds the keys to health-care reform; any health-care legislation must... More
Missing Children
The story behind the story on SCHIP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Last week, the House passed a long-awaited bill that would increase the number of kids covered under the State Children’s... More
Dart to the Florida Health News Service
Whose side is it on, anyway?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 16, 2009 at 11:50 AM
“Will Obama be able to kill popular Advantage plans?" Whoa! The headline sounded ominous and signaled that the new president... More
WellPoint Gets in Trouble with Medicare
Journalists should jump on this story ASAP
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM
It’s not everyday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cracks down hard on one of its clients;... More
Health Care Flashpoints Archive
An archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 12, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Health Care Flashpoints” series, in descending order. 06/29/09: Health... More
A Headline Writer Gets Carried Away
A real plan, or a lot of sweet talk from Daschle and his Senate colleagues?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 12, 2009 at 09:19 AM
The headline on a New York Times story Friday piqued my interest and probably that of health care mavens who... More
The TV Doc as Surgeon General
Whose interests will Sanjay Gupta promote?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 8, 2009 at 11:38 AM
The president-elect has paged CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and asked him to be the next surgeon general, a position that... More
Who Will Be at the Table Archive
Links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s series
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 7, 2009 at 04:05 PM
Below, you will find links to every entry in Trudy Lieberman’s “Who Will Be at the Table” series, in descending... More
Who Will Be at the Table? Part IV
The docs have escaped media scrutiny—so far
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 7, 2009 at 09:06 AM
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health... More
A Laurel to the AP
For exposing one of Medicare’s biggest holes
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 6, 2009 at 08:56 AM
The press has pretty much ignored Medicare over the past year, largely because the politicians have ignored it too. Media... More
Report from the Tupperware Circuit, Part II
The public vents, the press takes notice
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 5, 2009 at 08:19 AM
Before Christmas, we urged the press to cover the community meetings called by Obama’s health chief Tom Daschle in order... 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.
