by Bach Polakowski | Jul 31, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard has a new Ombdusversation on the ethics of a journalist participating in a gay pride parade. It’s a great format that includes a number of talking heads–including NLGJA’s president David Steinberg–discussing the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 31, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
One of our goals with this blog is to both cast a critical eye on the coverage of LGBT issues, but also highlight journalism we like. In that spirit, take a look at two tennis-themes pieces that show how good journalism does not have to be showy, but how LGBT themes...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 30, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
What is it about Washington State and their LGBT-related free speech battles? Today, there’s news that a federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order preventing the release of names of people who signed a petition to get an anti-domestic partnership...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 29, 2009 | News |
Tune Foremost LGBT Journalism Conference to Be Held in September Washington, D.C. – The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) released a dozen reasons today to attend its 2009 National Convention & 6th Annual LGBT Media Summit in Montreal ,...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 27, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko |
In its Sunday edition, July 26, the Washington Post interviewed Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, about the time in 1973 when the then 20-year-old Segal interrupted Walter Cronkite’s nightly news broadcast to protest the lack of coverage of...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 27, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
There are difficult stories to tell and difficult mysteries to unravel. One of the challenges in the current journalism world is determining when is a story “a story” that deserves mainstream coverage and how do you go about getting the story....
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 26, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Sometimes, you look at a story and a headline and you expect you are going to get one thing. Then, you read the story and get something different. While the story you get is quite good, you wonder what the story would have been like if you had gotten the story you...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 25, 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 | Jul 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Mediabistro’s journalism gossip blog FishbowlDC has a letter to the Miami Herald from US Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon–the chief spokesman at Guantanamo–accusing reporter Carol Rosenberg of “sexually harassing” him, including making...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Okay, let me get this out first. I love reading the New York Times styles and life sections for the pure snark appeal. The people are always “perfect”–white, wealthy, well-bred–and their dilemmas always so, well, New York. So we have a classic...
