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A Medicare Miss at the LA Times
Some fact-checking, please
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 18, 2011 at 02:33 PM
Medicare is a bear to write about. It’s tough for beneficiaries to understand, and unclear news stories only serve to... More
Covering the Chained CPI
Let me count the ways it can be done
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 26, 2011 at 02:42 PM
There are five ways to cover the Chained CPI, a proposed new method for determining the cost-of-living (COLA) adjustments that... More
Grandparent of the Chained CPI
Some stories never die
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 28, 2011 at 02:54 PM
Sarah Cohen, a professor at the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke, and a one-time reporter for... More
Hawkery—and Hackery—from Hiatt
Post column misleads on health care reform
By Greg Marx Jun 13, 2011 at 02:17 PM
In his latest column, which chides President Obama for choosing “easier politics over harder truths” when dealing with America’s fiscal... More
Social Security Cuts and the CLASS Act
Language, language, language
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 21, 2011 at 04:42 PM
If the MSM is to be believed, soon we will know what cuts Congress has in mind for Social Security,... More
The Deficit Deal Defined
Is Medicare really safe?
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 2, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett chatted with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC yesterday as part of a sales job for the deficit... 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?
Josh Barro, the loneliest Republican
What to make of the 28-year-old columnist’s contempt for the GOP—and its would-be reformers
Dowd and Fournier and countless others who have launched similar complaints are asking, “Why aren’t we getting what we were promised?”
Elizabeth Spiers on launching media brands
What do news publications need to do to adapt to digital? Any publication you see doing it really well?
Wolf Blitzer and other journalists should leave God out of natural disasters
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.
