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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 completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
