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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
‘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)
The New York Times told me to take this down
“If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool, we’d appreciate it”
In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters
“[A]s flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration”
Jay Carney press briefing blues
“Reporters are increasingly skeptical about Carney’s demeanor and the veracity of some answers”
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
A future where writers can gain wealth through a “freelance economy”
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.
