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A Rate-Regulation Case Study in Pennsylvania
When insurance rates are news—and when they are not
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 21, 2011 at 04:26 PM
What’s so interesting about insurance rate regulation, and why is it worth reporting on? The topic has everything to do... More
Audit Notes: When a Loss Isn’t a Loss, Lehman, WSJ on Nukes
By Ryan Chittum Mar 15, 2011 at 01:01 AM
You're going to hear a lot about all the "losses" insurers are going to be taking on the catastrophe in... More
Highway to the danger zone
Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
By Curtis Brainard Nov 20, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Hurricane Sandy renewed the media’s interest in the many foolish ways that we increase our vulnerability to extreme weather. There’s... More
Race to the Bottom
A Times story illustrates a peril that is a virtue to some
By Ryan Chittum May 10, 2011 at 04:08 PM
The New York Times gave this piece as big a play as you'll see a non-news story get yesterday, going... More
Rate Regulation Blow-up in California
WellPoint and co. win again
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 6, 2011 at 12:58 PM
The big news in health reform last week was the insurance industry’s victory in the California legislature, which scotched any... More
Reporting from the battlefield, uninsured
Freelancers on the frontlines operate with little to no institutional support
By Alysia Santo Jun 21, 2012 at 01:40 PM
While covering the uprising against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, photojournalist Anton Hammerl was shot and killed in an... More
Stories I’d like to see
Military movers, insuring a pitcher’s arm, and lobbyists against federal travel caps
By Steven Brill May 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM
1. The $5 billion moving bill: Reports last week that the US had agreed with Japan to transfer 9,000 of... More
The Intense Health Reform Drama in the Maine Legislature
What are its implications for the rest of the nation?
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 3, 2011 at 10:43 AM
If the old political adage “as goes Maine, so goes the nation” has any currency these days, health insurers may... More
#Realtalk: This isn’t another ‘golden age’ for print - But it is one for media
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
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.
