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Healthcare Costs
Brill’s big breakthrough
A Time manifesto on healthcare costs smashes fences that have constricted this conversation for far too long
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 5, 2013 at 02:58 PM
Steven Brill's taboo-busting X-ray of the US medical system, "Bitter Pill," has a chance to reframe the way we... More
Excluded Voices: Health Care Costs
An interview with Dr. Robert Berenson of the Urban Institute
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM
During the health reform debate, we periodically presented Q and A interviews with health care experts whose voices were scarce.... More
Health Care in the Real World
A lesson for the fuzzy-headed bureaucrats—and for the press
By Trudy Lieberman Apr 13, 2011 at 07:11 AM
Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post, gives a different twist on covering high-deductible health plans, that new... More
Healthcare and the profit motive—do they work well together?
Eduardo Porter asks a big question in the Times
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 14, 2013 at 02:51 PM
It was refreshing to see Eduardo Porter, in his Economic Scene column last week in The New York Times, call... More
Healthcare costs: A moment of clarity
Steve Brill stands his ground on ABC
By Trudy Lieberman Feb 27, 2013 at 03:00 PM
Bravo for Steve Brill! His appearance on ABC's This Week was a rare example of a guest on a... More
Medicare Uncovered: the pain from ‘skin in the game’
A report puts a hole in the plan to make people pay more
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM
This is the first of a series of occasional "Medicare Uncovered" posts that will look at how the media are... More
Poking Holes in the Massachusetts Mantra
The part of the story that the Times didn’t tell
By Trudy Lieberman Sep 8, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Sunday’s New York Times piece comparing the records of GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Jon Huntsman on... More
Take this fiscal pop quiz
Test your knowledge about federal spending—and federal-spending myths
By Trudy Lieberman Mar 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
From Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, comes a pop quiz that's fun to take and tests... More
The WSJ Is Excellent On Bad Doctors
Using a Medicare database to find outlying surgeons
By Ryan Chittum Mar 29, 2011 at 01:41 PM
The Wall Street Journal has been mining a massive Medicare database for an investigative series on Medicare—particularly its costs and... More
The Big Boys: hospitals and their pricing muscles
Three newspaper investigations show that consolidation leads to higher costs for patients
By Trudy Lieberman Jan 21, 2013 at 06:50 AM
This is the first of an occasional series of posts called "The Big Boys," which will examine how the media... More
The missing villain in the healthcare drama
When it comes to rising costs, what about hospital consolidation? A shout-out to Eduardo Porter for pointing that out
By Trudy Lieberman Jun 19, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Eduardo Porter, the New York Times economics columnist, deserves a shout-out for his column last Wednesday challenging a meme... 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?”
Things have always been getting worse
Yes, women’s magazines can do serious journalism
In fact, we’ve been doing it for a while
The people who run the American security apparatus are in the overwhelming majority diligent people with a deep concern for civil liberties. But their job is to find creative ways to collect information. And they work within an institution that, because of its secrecy, is fundamentally inimical to democracy and to a free society
Fast Company is hacking the newsroom
Here’s why
Rachel Maddow’s tribute to Michael Hastings
“Michael was angry … he was angry about things that weren’t right in the world. He was angry with war and with loss, and that drove his reporting.”
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.
