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Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer
Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 15, 2012 at 03:25 PM
Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee elevates Medicare and Medicaid (along with Social... More
How to measure the worth of Social Security
The AP rehashes an old idea
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 9, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Is Social Security a good deal for workers? That’s the question the AP posed in an August 5 piece dredging... More
Required skimming: healthcare politics and policy
Channeling the inner wonk
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
This month, CJR presents “Required Skimming,” a daily miniguide to our staffers’ beats and obsessions, ranging from finance to food.... More
What makes Paul Ryan tick?
The New Yorker defines the man who would remake the government
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 8, 2012 at 06:50 AM
For those closely observing the attacks on Medicare and Social Security, Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile piece in the August... More
Romney likes Israeli healthcare
And the press takes a look at what it is. Whoa!
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 6, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Thanks to Mitt Romney’s laudatory remarks about the Israeli health system during his trip to Israel, we now know a... More
Would the GOP turn away from the uninsured?
NPR identifies the party’s new thinking
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 3, 2012 at 11:26 AM
NPR’s Julie Rovner deserves a shout-out for identifying what may be the GOP’s new thinking about healthcare—abandon the goal of... More
Does journalistic ‘balance’ hurt America?
What if Washington’s dysfunction was mostly one party’s fault: A Q&A with Thomas Mann
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 31, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,... More
Medicare and misinformation
Is my premium rising? A beat memo for reporters
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Two weeks ago a Midwest businessman sent an email to a long list of his senior friends warning that their... More
False balance and the Medicare scare
Who’s been telling the truth in Florida?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 26, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Last Thursday the president made a campaign stop in Florida, and—surprise, surprise—he talked about Medicare. Or at least he talked... More
The specter of ‘Socialized Medicine’ rides again
In the Massachusetts Senate race, no less
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 23, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Now that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land and its system of private insurance, private doctors,... More
A hunger for the food-stamp story
Some 45 million Americans use them—Who are they?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 19, 2012 at 02:50 PM
The press has shown only sporadic interest in the farm bill, a vast, important piece of legislation that must be... More
The healthcare whatyamacallit
What’s a reporter to call that payment thing—tax or penalty?
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 17, 2012 at 06:50 AM
The Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act handed journalists something of a semantic dilemma. What do we call... More
The Palm Beach Post exposes a hidden menace
Government cutbacks and the worst TB epidemic in 20 years
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Reporting on tuberculosis is not most reporters’ idea of a glamor assignment. It’s an ancient disease, drug companies aren’t keen... More
A sober look at healthcare after the ACA
The Los Angeles Times leads the way
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Chad Terhune’s piece, “Supreme Court’s healthcare ruling: The outlook for California,” offered a clear-eyed look at the repercussions of the... More
Spinning the Supreme Court’s healthcare decision
The press rides a PR tsunami on Obamacare
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 5, 2012 at 02:42 PM
In the days before and after the Supreme Court’s decision, spin doctors were hard at work peddling their experts, positions,... More
Climbing the Medicaid mountain
The press is starting to master the policy angles. Now for the people
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 3, 2012 at 03:03 PM
The Affordable Care Act envisions a major expansion of health insurance in America, with some 30 million Americans gaining coverage.... More
Romney’s ‘job killer’ narrative: time for an X-ray
Some reporters are asking: Does Obamacare really destroy jobs?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 25, 2012 at 06:50 AM
ONNtv.com, which bills itself as Ohio’s channel for news, is one of the latest media outlets to casually pass along... More
Whaddya know—advertising works!
The Times continues the conversation about Obamacare and public opinion
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM
If anyone ever doubted that advertising works, the latest example of its persuasive power, documented in The New York Times... More
The failure to explain health reform
The public doesn’t understand it. Whose fault is that?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 20, 2012 at 06:51 AM
If the Supreme Court rules the health reform law or its central feature—the individual mandate requiring people to have health... More
The brave new world of health insurance exchanges
It’s time to take a look at how they are working in Massachusetts and beyond
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 18, 2012 at 11:05 AM
New York Times reporter Abby Goodnough’s piece last week about the health insurance exchange in Massachusetts is instructive—especially since other... 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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
