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“Tweaking” Health Reform
Who pays the price for the changes?
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 25, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Lost in MSM coverage of the president’s budget and hype over a government shutdown has been reportage about the various... More
“I will separate his head from his body”
Communications director wants to plug leak with machete
By Joel Meares Dec 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM
It seems Governor Paterson’s communications director Peter Kauffmann has a bit of the Rahm Emanuel in him, if this e-mail... More
“Not Putting This In An Email”
She must have known
By Joel Meares Dec 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Perhaps Albany reporter Elizabeth Benjamin had an inkling that Governor Paterson’s communications director Peter Kauffmann’s e-mails would one day go... More
Globe Delivers its Verdict on Romneycare
A good—if imperfect—example of policy-oriented reporting
By Greg Marx Jun 27, 2011 at 05:13 PM
On Sunday, the Boston Globe published the second installment in its two-part series on “Romneycare,” the Massachusetts health care overhaul... More
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
WaPo’s New Opinion Tabs Miss the Mark
A flawed way to quantify ideological diversity
By Ben Adler Mar 17, 2011 at 01:41 PM
The Washington Post, as part of its ongoing web redesign, unveiled an addition to its online opinions section on Monday.... More
A Beat Memo on Medicare
Is the Ryan plan really so novel?
By Trudy Lieberman May 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
A Big Omission at NBC
Whatever happened to Social Security?
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 3, 2011 at 12:48 PM
NBC Nightly News took on retirement income the other day and found most Americans’s savings will come up short. The... 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 Lecture for the New Media Set
Kauffmann on John Koblin’s Tweet and “journalistic integrity”
By Joel Meares Dec 1, 2010 at 10:02 AM
I’m going to guess that Paterson communications director Peter Kauffmann is more your leisurely Sunday Times reader than your short-is-best... More
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
A Medicare Referendum? Not So Fast
Polls in N.Y. special election tell a more complicated story
By Greg Marx May 16, 2011 at 03:52 PM
The future of Medicare is one of the biggest, most fiercely contested questions in American politics these days. And with... More
A Midsummer Donation Spike, With Context
Reports from recent campaign finance reports
By Liz Cox Barrett Dec 16, 2010 at 10:34 AM
There is much that can not be found in publicly available federal campaign finance reports: the identities of all the... More
A Missing Health Policy Story
A “study says” piece gets short shrift
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 4, 2011 at 12:29 PM
The most underreported health story of this past week was, in my view, one that came out of the RAND... More
A Missing Medicare Link from The New York Times
Covering Medicare, Part II
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Perhaps no other health issue is as important to so many Americans now and in the future as Medicare. In... More
A New Entry in the Health Care Lexicon
Beware of “centralized medical planning”
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 29, 2011 at 04:23 PM
Lawrence Hunter, a contributor on Forbes.com, took on President Obama the other day, listing a number of White House initiatives... More
A Photo of History Being Made (Up)?
Spot the presidential address reenactment photo!
By Liz Cox Barrett May 4, 2011 at 06:07 PM
One of the images below is of President Obama delivering his historic "justice has been done" address live to the... More
A Second Look at NY-26
New polls suggest a role for Medicare, but reasons for caution remain
By Greg Marx May 23, 2011 at 03:02 PM
A week ago, I called for more restraint in press coverage of tomorrow’s special election in NY-26, which the press... More
A Shout Out to The Palm Beach Post
A rare glimpse into the ways of for-profit health care
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 20, 2011 at 02:32 PM
The Palm Beach Post deserves kudos for exposing how Florida governor Rick Scott conducted the business of his urgent care... 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
‘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 (18)
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.
