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USA Today Touts the Government’s Good News on Medicare
But was it the full story?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 6, 2012 at 11:57 AM
A few days ago USA Today trumpeted some health policy news: enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans is up and premiums... More
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times
She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
By Trudy Lieberman Aug 24, 2012 at 04:04 PM
This week’s laurel goes to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times for reporting the increasing skepticism in health... More
A sober look at healthcare after the ACA
The Los Angeles Times leads the way
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 9, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Chad Terhune’s piece, “Supreme Court’s healthcare ruling: The outlook for California,” offered a clear-eyed look at the repercussions of the... More
An Obamacare scorecard
Part 1: What’s gone, what’s on hold, and what’s still in place
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 29, 2013 at 06:56 AM
For all that has been written, spoken, screamed, and whispered about the Affordable Care Act, there is still a... More
An Obamacare scorecard: Part 2
The hits, misses, and mixed reviews
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 30, 2013 at 06:55 AM
Politico recently summed up the president's recent sales pitch for Obamacare this way: "Make the big sell by talking small."... More
Ask Romney This: What will replace Obamacare?
A vague healthcare plan raises many questions
By Trudy Lieberman Nov 2, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Over the final weeks of the campaign, CJR has been publishing a series of pieces under the headline “Ask Obama... More
Birthday Coverage for the Affordable Care Act
The two faces of health reform
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 22, 2012 at 04:16 PM
The health reform law celebrates its two-year anniversary tomorrow. There are myriad ways to report on the Affordable Care Act... More
CJR Holds a Town Hall at NYU
Students know little about the health law
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 24, 2011 at 01:00 PM
It is birthday week for the Affordable Care Act, the official name of the health reform law passed a year... More
Covering an Obamacare clawback: better late than never
The Associated Press discovers an overlooked story
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 5, 2013 at 11:00 AM
What Congress giveth, it can also taketh away. And there's no clearer example than a provision in the Affordable Care... More
Eureka! The media discovers Medicaid
And why that matters to the middle class
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 24, 2012 at 06:51 AM
Ah Medicaid! What can we say about it? Until the last couple of weeks, the press has said almost nothing.... More
Exchange Watch: Navigating the insurance jungle
How to cover your local healthcare exchange: a primer
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 26, 2013 at 10:59 AM
Not surprisingly, the topic of the new Obamacare state insurance exchanges--called Health Insurance Marketplaces by the feds--came up at a... More
Expand Ohio’s Medicaid expansion story
Keep people at the fore, but dig into the private insurance angle
By Anna Clark Apr 4, 2013 at 11:00 AM
DETROIT, MI -- While reporters across the country are tackling the Medicaid expansion story as the Affordable Care Act takes... More
Fast-tracking the truth in IPAB coverage
How to cover a key ACA provision without making misinformation worse
By Brendan Nyhan Jan 14, 2013 at 11:15 AM
One of the most underrated political stories of the next year is the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (also... More
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day One
Press coverage offers a little something for everyone
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 27, 2012 at 02:29 PM
Press coverage of the Affordable Care Act’s debut before the Supreme Court yesterday offered a little bit of everything. The... More
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day Three
The press reads the tea leaves
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 29, 2012 at 03:06 PM
As the Supreme Court ended oral arguments on the Affordable Care Act, addressing whether the law can stand alone without... More
Health Reform and the Supreme Court: Day Two
Press coverage focuses on the individual mandate
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 28, 2012 at 01:40 PM
There was one near-universal takeaway from Day Two of oral arguments before the Supreme Court: The requirement that almost all... More
Healthcare expert for sale
The Guardian follows the saga of Liz Fowler, healthcare lobbyist extraordinaire
By Trudy Lieberman Dec 6, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Leave it to the Brits to tell us Americans about our healthcare system. In this case the telling is done... More
Healthcare: Do Americans get too much—or too little?
A shout-out to Remapping Debate
By Trudy Lieberman May 7, 2012 at 11:00 AM
We’ve become accustomed of late to stories telling us we get too much healthcare. We get too much of the... More
How an anti-tax HIT squad employs the press
“We’re pitching things and hope people run it. We’re not paying for ads”
By Trudy Lieberman May 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM
The small-business community has revved up its campaign to repeal a tax on insurance companies intended to help finance subsidies... More
Jon Stewart Takes on Sebelius
What Madame Secretary didn’t say
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 25, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Jon Stewart welcomed Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius to The Daily Show Monday night, and it was great... More
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
In one tweet
Luke Russert is the Golden Boy of DC
And it drives young journalists crazy
It’s official: We never need to worry about the future of journalism again!
The NYT shows us why
Why does Florida produce so much weird news? Experts explain
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
