by Bach Polakowski | Jun 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
Why do newspapers hide their own newsrooms’ content online? Here in San Francisco both of the mainstream papers in town, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, have redesigned their main Web sites to make it that much harder to find and just...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 18, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
The National Football League, like the military, appears to do most of its work naked and in the showers based on the rhetoric that often appears when the issue of integrating gay men into their ranks arises.
A “shower panic” argument by former NFL player Kenneth Hutcherson–now a pastor and anti-gay activist in Washington state–in the Washington Post’s The League conversation about gays in the NFL raises an interesting question about when to include extreme rhetoric and views or quotes in an otherwise rational, balanced piece of journalism.
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 17, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
A recent item in Obit Magazine by writer Michael Schaffer critiqued the U.S. obituaries of Danny La Rue, a famous British drag performer, who died at 81. Here’s an excerpt: “The obits from the British press were magnificent: ‘Beneath huge headdresses...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 16, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Our co-blogger Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. is featured on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation today discussing coming out and his column in Poz magazine describing his coming out experiences. The show was a great example of what can be done with the intimacy...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 16, 2009 | Laura Laing |
It’s not often that ordinary crime reporting intersects with mainstream reporting of LGBT concerns — unless the story is about a hate crime. Last week, The Sun reported the murders of two Baltimore women. Their decomposing bodies were found in their...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 16, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
The Journalists LGBTQ+ Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBTQ+ community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBTQ+...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 15, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
In addition to the discussion of errors in the blogging on the DOMA brief, the other big story about the brief is that it hasn’t been much of a story, at least as far as the MSM press goes. ABC’s Jake Tapper has done some good blogging on the issue,...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 15, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
One of the never-ending debates in the current media landscape is how journalism in the new media is different (and better) than the old media. The one caveat to that, however, is the viral nature of information and even news and the difficulty in correcting...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 13, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 12, 2009 | Ina Fried |
The news this week that Chastity Bono is transitioning to be Chaz Bono offers the world another chance to hear about a topic that many still know little about. People often ask me how gender transitions should be covered, what with being a journalist and having...
