NLGJA | Workplace Campaigns

ABC Inc. A division of Disney. Offered corporate-wide as of 1994 to same-sex partners. Eligible: 7,000 employees not covered by union funds. Enrolled as of 1996: <1%.

Advance Publications, Staten Island, N.Y. Offered to same-sex partners in most corporate divisions by December, 2000 (some earlier). Employs 26,300 people.

Allegient Media, San Francisco. Pays for individual health insurance policies of employees's domestic partners. Owns DiversityInc.com.

AOL Time Warner, New York, N.Y. Offered by Time Warner to same-sex partners of employees as of 1994. Enrolled: 128 (0.2%) of 67,000 employees as of 1999. Merger with AOL approved in 2001.

The Associated Press, as of July 1, 2003. Offered to 1,700 editorial employees of the news service in the News Media Guild. More information to follow as details of this new agreement are disclosed.

Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, Calif. Offered since at least 1996. This private company declined to give details.

Belo Corporation, Dallas, Texas, 2003. Employs 7,800 employees in the United States.

Bloomberg, L.P. All eligible as of September, 2000. Employs more than 8,000 worldwide.

CBS Corp., New York, N.Y. Offered as of 2000 to same-sex partners of employees.

Consumer Money Reports (with Quicken.com)
Medical/Health Reports (with HealthCentral.com)
Consumer Travel Reports (with Travelocity)

Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, IL. Medical and dental insurance to eligible domestic partners starting Jan. 1, 2004. The suburban Chicago newspaper will also offer the same benefits as employee's spouses, including health fair testing and bereavement pay.

Desert Television, LLC, Palm Springs, CA. Offers full domestic partner benefits.

Wall Street Journal
Barron's Smart Money
Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Interactive
Barron's Online
Work.com
WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal Radio Network
Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., which owns 19 daily and 15 weekly community newspapers: Santa Cruz Daily Sentinel, Santa Cruz, CA; The New-Times, Danbury, CT; The Daily Independent, Ashland, KY; Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, MA; Salem Evening News, Salem, MA; Gloucester Times, Gloucester, MA; The Daily News, Newburyport, MA; The Standard-Times, New Bedford, MA; Traverse City Record-Eagle, Traverse City, MI; The Free Press, Mankato, MN; The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO; The Herald, Portsmouth, NH; Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, NY; The Daily Start, Oneonta, NY; The Times-Herald Record, Middletown, NY; Mail Tribune, Medford, OR; The Herald, Sharon, PA; The Pocono Record, Stroudsburg, PA; The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA.

Fox Entertainment Group, New York, NY. Offered as of 1996 to same-sex partners. Note: News America/News Corp., a Fox division, handles its benefits separately. See separate listing.

Greenspun Media Group, Las Vegas, NV. Offered as of January 2006. To be eligible, LGBT employees must be in a committed domestic partnership for at least one year and sign an affidavit to that effect. The program covers LGBT employees of Greenspun Media Group, American Pacific and Vegas.Com.

French Press Agency (AFP). Extended to approximately 60 U.S. employees by contract as of 2000. French employees covered by domestic partners law as of 1999.

Hearst Corp., New York, NY. Corporate directive in 1997 encouraged individual properties to offer DP benefits.

San Francisco Examiner
San Francisco Independent

International Data Group, Boston, MA. Offered corporate-wide as of 1993. All eligible.

International Medical News Group, Rockville, MD. A division of Reed Elsevier, a multinational corporation. All eligible, 2001.

Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc., Mountain View, CA. Individual divisions allowed to choose DP benefits as of 1997 for same-sex partners.

Lee Enterprises Inc. Offered as of January 2006. With the acquisition of Pulitzer Inc. in June 2005, Lee became the fourth largest newspaper company in the country in terms of dailies owned, with 58, and grew from 12th to seventh largest in terms of total daily circulation. Lee also owns more than 300 weekly newspapers, shoppers and specialty publications. With the addition of about 4,000 people from Pulitzer, Lee has 10,700 employees. All eligible.

MacTemps, San Francisco, CA. Offered to same-sex partners. Company supplies temporary employees to editorial staffs of sidewalk.com and other media outlets.

McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY. Offered as of 1998. All eligible. Divisions include:

Minnesota Communications Group, Minneapolis, MN. Offered corporate-wide as of 1992. All eligible.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, San Francisco, CA. Offered as of 1999.

NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Telemundo (And Parent Company General Electric). Effective January 1, 2004.

New York Times Co., New York, NY. Offered to same-sex partners of non-unionized employees.

News America/News Corp., New York, NY. A division of Fox Entertainment that handles benefits separately from Fox. Offered corporate-wide as of 1998 to same-sex partners of US employees.

PlanetOut/Online Partners.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA. All eligible as of 1997.

Smith Television of New York, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL. Offered as of January 2004 to same-sex employees.

St. Petersburg Times, St. Petersburg, FL. Offered as of 1997 to same-sex partners.

Tribune Company, Chicago, IL. Offered corporate-wide as of 2001. All eligible. Offered at Times Mirror Co., a subsidiary of Tribune Co., since 1998. See separate listings for Times Mirror properties, below.

VNU, Inc., a multinational company based in The Netherlands. Offered corporate-wide as of 2001. All eligible.

Miller-Freeman, San Francisco, CA. Offered as of 1999. Acquired by VNU in 2000.

CMP Media, Manhasset, NY. Acquired by Miller Freeman in 1999. Acquired by VNU in 2000.

Washington Post Co., Washington, DC. Individual properties allowed to choose DP benefits as of 1999 for same-sex partners.

Ziff-Davis Media, New York, NY. A division of Willis Stein & Partners. All eligible, 1993. Divisions include: