Campaign Desk
Presidential “Outburst” Much Ado About Nothing
But Obama could have offered alternative critique
By Joel Meares Apr 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM
The magical algorithms that rank the importance and popularity of the day’s political stories at the website Memeorandum had... More
Chipping Away at Health Reform, Part II
Ron Wyden’s lost program
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM
Throughout the health care debate, Oregon senator Ron Wyden worried whether Americans who will be required to buy health insurance... More
Uncivil Wars
The president should be more civil, whatever that means
By Joel Meares Apr 19, 2011 at 11:25 AM
With Wednesday’s deficit speech and Thursday night’s leaked comments about “sneak”-ing through agendas and Paul Ryan not being “on... More
Chipping Away at Health Reform
Some not-so-great news for consumers
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 19, 2011 at 09:47 AM
The health reform law, aka the Affordable Care Act, took a hit last week. Many journos, though, were apparently snoozing.... More
Conservatives Get Colorful on Obama’s Deficit Speech
More subdued libs are mostly pleased
By Joel Meares Apr 14, 2011 at 01:11 PM
The president’s speech yesterday was notable to my ears for two things: the surprisingly direct attack on Rep. Paul... More
Two Non-Plans for the Deficit
Slate and Times op-eds suggest Obama slack off
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 01:13 PM
Relatively vague previews of the president’s big deficit speech today suggest he will tout cuts to Medicare, limits on... More
AP Staffers Picket Bureaus Across The Country (UPDATED)
Frustrations on the rise over pension impasse
By Joel Meares Apr 13, 2011 at 08:09 AM
AP staffers in thirty-nine bureaus across the country picketed outside their bureau offices early this week, pressuring the news wire... More
Health Care in the Real World
A lesson for the fuzzy-headed bureaucrats—and for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 13, 2011 at 07:11 AM
Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new... More
What’s With Karl Rove’s Wiki?
Salon explains while NYT doesn’t finish its thought
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 11, 2011 at 02:38 PM
Wikicountablity.org is not Karl Rove's wiki, photos of Karl Rove accompanying the New York Times's two Wikicountability stories (and my... More
Q&A with NPR Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard (UPDATED)
“This is really the first time in NPR’s grown-up history that it’s been under siege.”
By Joel Meares Apr 11, 2011 at 01:22 PM
When Alicia Shepard became NPR’s ombudswoman in October 2007, she knew there would be challenges—public broadcasters are always going... More
A Good Social Security Story—At Last
Reuters shows it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 11, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Last week Reuters sent out a fine piece by Emily Kaiser that helped readers understand what the Social Security fight... More
The Problem with Covering Polls
Daily Caller mistakes opinion for fact
By Ben Adler Apr 8, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Thursday afternoon, Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson tweeted the link to a story on his website, saying "and the poor... More
Covering Medicare Archive
A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s “Covering Medicare” articles
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM
This is an archive of Trudy Lieberman's "Covering Medicare" articles, presented in descending order. 08/15/12: Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond:... More
Covering Medicare, Part I
A mixed performance from the press
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 7, 2011 at 04:07 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. Without... More
Department of Thin Skin
Toobin: Don’t “blame journalists”
By Liz Cox Barrett Apr 7, 2011 at 03:56 PM
Jeffrey Toobin has a column in the current New Yorker in which he discusses the current Supreme Court's "revolution in... 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)
Public television’s attempts to placate David Koch
One journalist took matters into his own hands when a fellow audience member wouldn’t stop using her smartphone during a theater performance
Purchasing Tumblr is Yahoo’s flashy bet on a shift in social media
The shift from Facebook to more creative social networks
Gay Talese’s outline for ‘Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,’ 1966
Handwritten on a shirt board
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.
