by Bach Polakowski | Nov 30, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
A terrific piece in the Los Angeles Times about the mayoral race in Atlanta, which pits a white woman–Mary Norwood–against an African American man–Kasim Reed. While the run-off was expected to come down to a question of race and voter-turnout, the...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 30, 2009 | Ina Fried |
Covering this past week’s tragic death of a sportswriter who apparently committed suicide presents quite a challenge for reporters and not just because the loss hits so close to home. Mike Penner was noteworthy for the 25 years spent covering all manner of...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 29, 2009 | NLGJA Updates |
Today brought the sad news that Los Angeles Times sports columnist Mike Penner–who spoke at NLGJA’s 2007 Convention as Christine Daniels–was found dead today of an apparent suicide. Here’s a brief statement from NLGJA’s president David...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 25, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Fair and accurate coverage of LGBT issues often requires an attention to balance, but also being aware when “balance” means unfair journalism. In a story in the Washington Post on local ministers losing influence over politicians as a vote on same-sex...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 25, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The Politico article “The White House’s unprecedented use of ‘unprecedented'” makes a case against the use of “unprecedented” by President Obama and his administration. Here’s an excerpt: The Obama White House is addicted to...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 24, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Rex Wockner, a longtime journalist in the LGBT media, on his blog recently interviewed Andy Towle, the former editor in chief of Genre and current editor of the popular LGBT blog Towleroad. Here’s an excerpt: Rex: You post about 18 to 20 items a day. How many...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 24, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
Reports are now beginning to trickle in regarding the financial collapse of Window Media. ProjectQAtlanta has gotten the first look at bankruptcy filings by Window Media and Unite Media (the media unit of Avalon Equity Partners, the owners of Window Media) and the...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 21, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett |
I will admit that I wouldn’t recognize an Adam Lambert song if he was singing in my living room, but he’s hard to ignore on the Internet since everyone seems to be talking about him. The current attention is focused on his spat with Out magazine editor...
by NLGJA | Nov 20, 2009 | Michael R. Triplett, News, Toolkit |
As we’ve discovered over and over again at this blog, telling the story of transgender people seems to be especially tricky for reasons that are both complicated and fairly simple. So it’s worth pointing to examples when the story of transgender people is...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 20, 2009 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
The editorial staff of the former Washington Blade have indeed achieved the launch of DC Agenda, the capital’s newest LGBT newspaper. Here’s an excerpt from the inaugural letter from the editor by Kevin Naff: Don’t judge us too harshly — the edition of DC...
