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Good Angle on the Drug Industry
The Washington Post connects some dots
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 18, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Three cheers for Jeffrey Birnbaum, staff writer at The Washington Post, for providing a fresh look at the powerful drug... More
“Socialized Medicine” R.I.P.
Who’s afraid of the big, bad bogeyman?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 17, 2008 at 03:40 PM
The media searching for a new healthcare angle to cover during the long wait until the Pennsylvania primary might want... More
McCain’s Health-Care Disconnect
Boasting about the U.S. system may not cut it anymore
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 11, 2008 at 01:35 PM
In his victory speech last week, John McCain finally mentioned health care. Until now, he has hasn’t said much about... More
Dude, Where’s My Health Care?
The AP blows it in a story about insurance for “slackers”
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 6, 2008 at 02:48 PM
Young Thomas Mahoney was everywhere. The twenty-one-year-old’s confrontation with the health insurance system made news across the country, thanks to... More
Accuracy in Truth Squading II
The Plain Dealer does it right
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2008 at 12:48 PM
On Saturday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer punctured a few holes in an ad sponsored by the giant Service Employees International... More
Teaching vs. Preaching
A glimmer of pedagogy in the Ohio debate—were the media learning?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2008 at 04:19 PM
The topic of health-care reform in the presidential campaign thus far has been notable for the brevity of the discussion... More
Accuracy in Truth Squading
KTRK-TV’s truth meter needs recalibration
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2008 at 01:00 PM
Truth squading is catching on. All over the country media outlets have latched onto truth squad features, which examine the... More
The Definition of Universal, Again
Ted Kennedy’s take on it
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 20, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Ted Kennedy should know better. After all, he has spent a good part of his Senate career fighting for national... More
Impressive Coverage at the LA Times
Exposing warts in the health insurance market
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 20, 2008 at 09:39 AM
A shout-out to Los Angeles Times staff writer Lisa Girion who has done great journalism exposing the flaws in the... More
Obama’s Lobbyist Line
A “more complicated truth” on campaign contributions
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 15, 2008 at 09:00 AM
Saturday night at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia, Barack Obama did it again. He said he hadn’t taken money... More
A Cautionary Tale for David Brooks and Others
What, really, was Jim Cooper’s ‘Clinton Lite?’
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 8, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Now comes New York Times columnist David Brooks damning Hillary Clinton with faint praise. In his Tuesday column, Brooks says... More
Harry and Louise Redux?
The media miss the point
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 4, 2008 at 04:26 PM
Barack Obama has taken on Hillary Clinton’s health care plan front and center. His new mailer attacking her proposal resurrects... More
Tax Credits Explained…Finally
The Salt Lake Tribune takes a deeper view
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Tip of the hat to The Salt Lake Tribune for the health care story it ran this week about the... More
A Guide That Isn’t
Too much brevity at the Chronicle
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle can be forgiven if they came away totally confused by the paper’s attempt on... More
Mitt’s Health Plan, Debunked
Why isn’t the press paying attention?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 23, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Mitt Romney’s win in a couple of primaries gives the media another chance to look seriously at his Massachusetts health... More
Health Care: Passing Along the Confusion
The Times unclarifies
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM
It was one of those stories—“Heath Care is a Big Concern for Nevada”—that made clear that Nevada voters care about... More
Moving the boundaries
A Pennsylvania paper dares to cover single payer
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 18, 2008 at 04:00 PM
A tip of the hat to the Sunday News, a division of Lancaster Newspapers Inc., which gave a wider view... More
Health Care: Who Will Be at the Table?
Following the (insurance company) money
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2008 at 01:19 PM
Barack Obama has made a big deal about who will be at his table when the time comes to craft... More
Medicare Mystery
Why the conspiracy of silence?
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 2, 2008 at 02:03 PM
Of the millions of words written and spoken about U.S. health care, only a tiny percentage have been about Medicare.... More
Deception in Des Moines
The Register’s Media Watch might want to check the mirror
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 19, 2007 at 09:58 AM
On Saturday The Des Moines Register weighed in with one of its Media Watch features, which critiques political ads and... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
