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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
‘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?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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.
