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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
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
Medicare and misinformation
Is my premium rising? A beat memo for reporters
By Trudy Lieberman Jul 27, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Two weeks ago a Midwest businessman sent an email to a long list of his senior friends warning that their... More
Medicare and the $500 billion bogeyman
Will a half-truth still work for the GOP?
By Trudy Lieberman May 21, 2012 at 06:50 AM
Republicans and their allies are dusting off an old $500 billion deception about Medicare, trying once more to scare seniors... 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?
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The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (19)
Ben Mathis-Lilley’s defense of new media
Take off the nostalgia-tinted lenses
21 questions with David Remnick
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Are you sure that question is grammatical?
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The NYT’s Jodi Kantor answers
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.
