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CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Voices of the occupiers on Centennial Mall
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 5, 2011 at 03:38 PM
George Packer’s superb New Yorker article about the Wall Street Occupiers is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand... More
Switching Sides on Social Security
Look who’s getting rid of the payroll tax
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM
What to do about those FICA contributions, aka payroll taxes, now that the supercommittee has blown up? Last Christmas the... More
Romney’s Marie Antoinette Moment
What, let them have health care?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 28, 2011 at 12:13 PM
The lede of the Boston Globe’s campaign story a few days ago was explicit: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday... More
A Shoutout to MarketWatch
For a report that examined the future of long-term care
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 17, 2011 at 01:23 PM
Last week, MarketWatch did the kind of report we have been urging the media to do on a subject they’d... More
A Laurel to the AP
For its eye-opening story on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2011 at 12:18 PM
The AP’s recent story on proposed changes in the derivation of Social Security’s cost of living (COLA) formula is the... More
WaPo’s Misleading Social Security Piece
Article doesn’t come close to telling the whole story
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM
By now we’re aware that The Washington Post supports serious changes in Social Security. In fact, the paper editorialized Friday... More
The “Government Takeover of Health Care” Is Baaaack!
Chris Christie waves the bloody shirt
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 3, 2011 at 01:22 PM
A “government takeover of health care” is back. At least it is in the mind of New Jersey governor Chris... More
The Massachusetts Disconnect
Another health reform lesson from the Bay State
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 26, 2011 at 03:27 PM
Much of the national press took a pass last week on another important “study says” story out of Massachusetts. This... More
AP Gives Half a Loaf on Long-Term Care
More reporting needed from the wire service
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 25, 2011 at 01:18 PM
When the CLASS Act, a part of the health reform law that would have begun to establish a national program... More
The Human Faces behind the Social Security Rhetoric
Good work from CBS News
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 21, 2011 at 01:50 PM
Finally, a mainstream media outlet has broken through the dominant narrative about Social Security and showed what the program means... More
Requiem for the CLASS Act
Long-term care program’s death sends signals the press isn’t receiving
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 17, 2011 at 01:48 PM
On Friday, the stepchild of health reform died at the hands of the Obama administration, and the obits for the... More
Good Work from the Times on Rate Increases
Shedding light on insurance company secrets
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 14, 2011 at 09:00 AM
Proving that not every story has to be a zillion words long or analyze a zillion data points to break... More
CJR’s Assignment Desk, Part I
Hospitals sell emergency room care
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 12, 2011 at 11:11 AM
This summer, Phil Galewitz of Kaiser Health News wrote an intriguing piece published in The Washington Post about hospitals that... More
Golden Teeth Redux
A Dallas TV station investigates the state’s Medicaid shenanigans
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 7, 2011 at 11:29 AM
Byron Harris, the dogged investigative reporter for Dallas, Texas television station WFAA, has come up with two more installments in... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Nebraska
Obama’s disconnect with the voters
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 5, 2011 at 12:49 PM
In a recent column for The Washington Post, Richard Cohen recounted how FDR cried when he learned that children living... More
Bad Omens for Health Care
Mixed coverage of the latest premium hikes
By Trudy Lieberman Oct 3, 2011 at 12:38 PM
The big news in health care last week was, of course, that average annual premiums for family coverage through employers... More
Meet the Bay State’s Uninsured
The national media pass on an important story
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 26, 2011 at 02:26 PM
Last week the Census Bureau released new numbers showing that 5.6 percent of the population in Massachusetts remained without health... More
Keeping an Eye on Patient Safety, Part IV
Sac Bee catches nursing home lies
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 23, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Slowly the public is coming to realize that health care institutions are not always safe places. Since the Institute of... More
Perry Misleads on RomneyCare
Socialized medicine, really?
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 19, 2011 at 01:08 PM
It's becoming clear that Rick Perry has never met a buzzword he doesn’t like. We’ve heard that Social Security is... More
Deep Health Care Problems under Rick Perry’s Watch
Deep in the heart of Texas
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM
With the media hyper-focused on Texas governor Rick Perry’s not-too-flattering comments about Social Security, health care in his state seems... 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.
