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Healthcare—reform in Great Britain vs. the USA:
part two
A conversation between CJR’s Trudy Lieberman and Chris Smyth, health reporter for The Times of London
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 10, 2012 at 06:50 AM
A while back Trudy Lieberman sat down with Chris Smyth, the health correspondent for The Times of London, who was... More
Healthcare in Great Britain vs. healthcare in the USA: part one
A conversation with Chris Smyth, health reporter for The Times of London
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 9, 2012 at 07:00 AM
Not long ago I sat down with Chris Smyth, a health journalist for The Times of London, who was traveling... More
The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
shouldn’t stand
Reporters did good fact checking, but also left falsehoods on the table
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 8, 2012 at 03:00 PM
There was no shortage of media fact checking after last week’s presidential debate, much of it focused on healthcare, much... More
Medicare costs: Are electronic records the solution—or the problem?
A Laurel to the Center for Public Integrity for an expose on “upcoding”
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2012 at 03:00 PM
Electronic billing has been promoted as a big cost savings for healthcare. But is it? The Center for Public... More
The word on the street: Divided
Massachusetts voters talk about Medicare, and their Senate race
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 1, 2012 at 03:26 PM
Last week I journeyed up to New England to see what voters thought of the debate over Medicare, for another... More
Pinning down Obama on Social Security
Where exactly does he stand?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Liberals took comfort in the president’s speech to the AARP Friday when he promised to defend Social Security. But his... More
How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be
A Laurel to The New Yorker for exploring the roots of modern political consulting
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Jill Lepore deserves a Laurel for her engrossing tale of how political communications came to be so toxic. In... More
Eureka! The media discovers Medicaid
And why that matters to the middle class
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 24, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Ah Medicaid! What can we say about it? Until the last couple of weeks, the press has said almost nothing.... More
The bogeyman is back!
The Columbia Daily Tribune digs up the $716 billion Medicare scare
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 21, 2012 at 01:14 PM
Aw come on! We would have thought by now the $716 billion Medicare bogeyman was dead and buried. Maybe not.... More
Medicare: Where’s the evidence that vouchers save money?
The National Journal seeks some, and comes up empty
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 18, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Margot Sanger-Katz, a National Journal reporter who has been brave enough to question conventional wisdom surrounding health policy—she reported that... More
What a higher Retirement Age really means
A Social Security mini-primer
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The idea of raising the age at which workers can collect benefits from Social Security is very much in play.... More
Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right
The network fact-checks a frequent talking point, and does it well
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 11, 2012 at 07:10 AM
Hooray for CNN.com, for fact checking the often-heard claim of Medicare’s “impending” bankruptcy. CNN’s contribution sets a high bar, and... More
Medicare spending: Do Obama and Romney see eye-to-eye?
Matthew Yglesias has a flawed but useful argument
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Several days ago, Matthew Yglesias dug deeply into the Medicare weeds, arguing in Slate that Obama and Ryan basically agree... More
The word on the street: disillusioned
Listening to voters talk Medicare in Pennsylvania
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2012 at 06:54 AM
Over the weekend, I visited an Italian festival in Scranton, PA, where the crowd, mostly older and white, had gathered... More
Parsing Romney on healthcare
Chris Wallace gets a C minus
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Before Chris Wallace got to the soft stuff of his Fox News Sunday interview last week with The Family Romney... More
A dart to the AP—and a laurel!
Good work on fact-checking speeches; on Social Security, not so much
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 31, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Dart The Associated Press misled its many readers, unfortunately, about what is a Social Security benefit cut and what... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
The word on the street: apprehensive
Listening to voters talk about Medicare in St. Louis
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 11:47 AM
The idea of privatizing Medicare is not winning popularity contests with voters. A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday found... More
Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman
Will a new version of a half-truth work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 22, 2012 at 11:17 AM
It’s been hard to escape from Medicare in the 11 days since Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan burst into the news... More
Profits vs. patients: The Tampa Bay Times complicates a story
The truth in medical disputes can be hard to find
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM
The Tampa Bay Times, formerly known as The St. Petersburg Times, deserves a shout-out for jumping on the local angle... 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.
