She has won 26 national and regional reporting awards and other honors, including two National Magazine Awards, 10 National Press Club Awards, five Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Awards, a John J. McCloy Fellowship to study health care in Germany, a Joan Shorenstein Fellowship from Harvard University to study media coverage of medical technology, an honorary doctorate of humane letters from the University of Nebraska, and two Fulbright Fellowships---a senior scholar award to study health care in Japan and a senior specialist award to participate in training conferences in the United Kingdom for European health journalists.   She is the author of five books including Slanting the Story the Forces That Shape the News and the Consumer Reports Guide to Health Services for Seniors, which was named by Library Journal as one of the best consumer health books for 2000.

Lieberman is an adjunct associate professor of public health at City University of New York where she teaches courses on the media's influence on public health.   She was director of the health and medical reporting program at the Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New York, has taught media ethics in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University.   In 2006, she was a Beamer-Schneider SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University where she taught courses on media ethics and the ethics of health care delivery.   In 2007, she was appointed the James H. Ottaway visiting journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz where she taught a course on the media and the marketplace.   In 2011, Lieberman was named the Soderlund Visiting Professor in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Nebraska where she taught public affairs reporting.

Lieberman served five years as the president of the Association of Health Care Journalists, a professional organization of over 1300 journalists who cover health and medicine, and continues to serve on the board of directors as immediate past president.   She is currently a national advisory council member of the California Health Benefits Review Program.   She has served on the board of directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Medicare Rights Center, and Village Care of New York.   Lieberman appears on many panels and lectures widely on health care in the U.S.   She holds a B.S. with distinction from the University of Nebraska and earned a certificate in business and economics journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1976-77.

She can be reached at trudy.lieberman@gmail.com and can be followed on Twitter at trudy_lieberman.