Campaign Desk
Regulating Health Care
Insurers and hospitals in Massachusetts snub the regulators
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2010 at 09:42 AM
The pols and the advocacy groups have told us for months that health reform is supposed to produce tighter regulation... More
Deep Trouble
Halperin and Heilemann’s game-changing attribution
By Clint Hendler Jan 12, 2010 at 04:09 PM
Is there a single journalistic quirk more likely to cause post-publication tsuris than the varying taxonomies of “off the record,”... More
Reid Aloud
Reid’s comments weren’t really like Lott’s. Journalists shouldn’t let people pretend that they were
By Greg Marx Jan 11, 2010 at 05:32 PM
When a political dispute breaks out, should reporters simply “report the controversy,” or instead attempt to referee and resolve it?... More
Stumbling over the Cadillac Plan Tax
Stephanopoulos tries; Romer fumbles
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 11, 2010 at 03:54 PM
If viewers were hungry for a little health care info yesterday from the talk shows, they wouldn’t have learned much... More
When Does a News Outlet Become a Press Agent?
Ben Nelson and the Fremont (Nebraska) Tribune
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 11, 2010 at 08:00 AM
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson has been in trouble with his constituents ever since he cast the crucial sixtieth vote to... More
Reform, or “Reform”?
Mixed results as press tries to gauge meaning of Dodd’s retirement
By Greg Marx Jan 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM
This story has been updated. See note at conclusion. The upcoming retirement of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), and what it... More
What’s So Funny?
A little less levity could be good for Dana Milbank
By Greg Marx Jan 7, 2010 at 03:24 PM
This week’s media news included the tidbit that The Washington Post's Dana Milbank, who’s been poking fun at D.C.’s political... More
Kudos to The Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette
For localizing the health reform story
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 7, 2010 at 11:24 AM
Before Christmas, Kate Long, the writing coach for The Charleston Gazette, contacted me about the media’s disinterest in the Children’s... More
Dust-up at The Washington Post
And new questions about the new news services
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 04:05 PM
This weekend the Internet was all a-twitter over a piece that The Washington Post ran right before New Year’s, headlined:... More
Trudy Lieberman Entitlement Reform Archive
A complete archive of Trudy Lieberman’s articles on Social Security reform and Obama’s deficit commission
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 03:58 PM
This is a list of every article on the subject of entitlement reform that Trudy Lieberman has written for Campaign... More
Best of 2009: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2009
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 4, 2010 at 02:42 PM
1. The "Baucus Watch" series: Sixteen posts that describe the machinations, in-fighting, and political pressure on the Senate Finance Committee... More
Best of 2009: Greg Marx
Marx picks his top stories from 2009
By Greg Marx Dec 30, 2009 at 03:00 PM
The Wrong Stuff This piece was a lot of fun to work on, because it involved doing some reporting to... More
Setting the Record Straight
The president, the press, and the public option
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 23, 2009 at 11:47 AM
In an interview with The Washington Post yesterday, President Barack Obama rejected criticism that he had compromised too much just... More
An Oops at USA Today
Exactly what was Ben Nelson’s position?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 22, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Waiting in a train station in Bath, England, yesterday as I wondered what was happening with health reform, I spotted... More
The Polarization Express
You can’t blame legislative gridlock on polarization alone
By Greg Marx Dec 21, 2009 at 03:12 PM
Dana Milbank had an interesting column over the weekend countering the conventional wisdom on Joe Lieberman: rather than undergoing some... 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.
