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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
A Medicare Memo to Campaign Reporters
Tailing Mitt on Medicare and Social Security, too
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2012 at 04:29 PM
Dear Colleagues: I have just returned from a reporting trip to Southeast Arkansas, where the folks I visited have very... More
A Shout Out to David Gregory
For pinning down Eric Cantor on Meet the Press
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2011 at 01:00 PM
David Gregory’s Meet the Press interview Sunday with new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor should be required reading in every... More
Another Take on NPR’s “Liberal Bias”
Its reporting on Social Security is anything but
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 16, 2011 at 04:48 PM
It was easy to understand why a story yesterday on NPR’s All Things Considered appeared to favor the Republican position... More
Best of 2010: Trudy Lieberman
Lieberman picks her top stories from 2010
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Social Security in the Heartland series: All year the media ignored how “fixes” to Social Security pushed by political elites... More
Brad DeLong’s Fiscal Manifesto
By Felix Salmon Nov 9, 2010 at 03:13 PM
Brad DeLong is fed up with vague hand-waving from technocrats, Bob Rubin very much included, who call for the government... More
CBS Fumbles Again
A lopsided report on Social Security
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 29, 2010 at 01:15 PM
If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall in Philly
Shoppers on Market Street sound off
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 25, 2011 at 01:48 PM
Finding myself in Philadelphia recently, I decided to stroll along Market Street and see which of the day’s big political... More
Enterprise Reporting at the AP
The retirement age debate finally reaches the public
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 23, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that... More
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
Other Views of Social Security
The MSM gives some equal time
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security... More
Social Security in Perspective, Part III
A conversation with William Greider
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2010 at 09:11 AM
Proposals to change the Social Security system have taken shape, and could foreshadow long-lasting effects on the program. Many of... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM
This is the sixth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More
Social Security in the Heartland: Nick Quealy-Gainer
What Social Security means to real people
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 22, 2010 at 01:25 PM
This is the ninth and final installment in a series of posts that discusses how possible changes in Social Security... 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
The making of a meme
Journos get on board the Let’s-Whack-Entitlements train
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 11, 2012 at 03:04 PM
Shortly after the election, the MSM quickly turned from the presidential horse race to the “fiscal cliff.” And soon, news... 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
‘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?
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The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
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.
