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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
Huckabee on Health
How about some details, Mike?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 12, 2007 at 09:58 AM
Candidate Mike Huckabee walked into the Oscar Frazier Community Center in Bluffton, South Carolina, the other day and charmed a... More
A Health Care Mirage
How candidates (and reporters) misuse the word “universal”
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 7, 2007 at 10:14 AM
By now we all know that the Democratic candidates are fighting about whose plan is more universal. Their sparring in... More
Romney Talks Tough on Health Care
But what’s he really saying?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 27, 2007 at 10:30 AM
Mitt Romney is talking tough these days about health care and touts his Massachusetts plan as a national model. His... More
The New Health-Care Debate
1992 echoes loudly, but today’s story isn’t just back to the future
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 27, 2007 at 09:00 AM
A 2005 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that twice as many people rely on the media for information... More
Rudy’s Unhealthy Stats
Some good reporting holds Giuliani’s phony cancer numbers at bay
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 21, 2007 at 03:44 PM
The coverage of Rudy Giuliani’s epidemiological error about his chances of surviving prostate cancer in England wasn't perfect, but it... More
The Epidemic
That gee-whiz medical segment on your local TV news? It was produced and written by the very hospital it’s touting.
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 1, 2007 at 08:30 AM
NOTE: This story has been corrected, as detailed in a note at the end of the piece When 19 thousand... 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.
