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USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message
What exactly did the deficit commission do?
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2010 at 01:09 PM
On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9... More
A Curious Omission at the Times
Three Social Security proposals, or two?
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM
It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... More
A Grand Bargain on entitlements?
The press is sending signals about Simpson-Bowles. How about explaining it?
By Trudy Lieberman May 29, 2012 at 02:35 PM
To the average person, Nancy Pelosi’s May 20 interview with George Stephanopoulos probably seemed like standard procedure for a Sunday... More
Social Security Under Attack
What the press had to say
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM
When the president signed the tax bill Friday, a year’s worth of efforts aimed at modifying Social Security came to... More
Talking back to Alan Simpson
The press picks up on his latest salvo. More, please?
By Trudy Lieberman May 31, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, as followers of the entitlements debate know, is, shall we say, tart-tongued and gutsy. Or,... More
The Education of Sen. Bennet
NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM
The squeaker victory of Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet landed him a spot on NPR’s Morning Edition the other day, and... More
The Return of Alan Simpson
Parsing his latest thoughts on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 28, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Alan Simpson, the co-chair of President Obama’s now-defunct deficit commission, showed up on Fox News the other day to talk... More
Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock?
The media discover Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 12, 2010 at 03:15 PM
Ouch! That was the media’s general reaction yesterday to the ideas in the report issued by the co-chairs of the... 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)
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma
Is the ‘chilling effect’ real?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113219/doj-seizure-ap-records-raises-question-chilling-effect-real
One year ago four journalists were brutally murdered in the bloodiest attack on the press in Mexico’s drug war. For those left behind the pain — and the threats — continue
50 years of foreign reporting from the NYRB
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.
