by Bach Polakowski | Mar 29, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Here Media announced a deal with NBC today that means NBC content will show up on The Advocate–and eventually on a daily or weekly news show on here! Networks. The here! news show should premier this year or in 2011, according to my story at Mediaite. Under the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 28, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
The Los Angeles Times re-enters the story of former LA Times sports reporter Mike Penner/Christine Daniels with a piece by Christopher Goffard based on several months of reporting after Penner’s death. Gone was quiet, circumspect Mike Penner, replaced by...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 24, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Another chapter–and an interesting twist–in the question of handling LGBT issues in obituaries. This time, the Associated Press obit of Midge Constanza. As a geek when it comes to LGBT political history, I read about the death of Costanza and instantly...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 20, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
The Washington Post’s Andrew Alexander must be getting really tired of talking about same-sex marriage. His newest column defends the paper’s coverage of same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia and rejects the argument the paper was cheerleading. ...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 19, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
The folks at Gawker are reporting anecdotes that freelancers for Regent Media’s Out and Advocate are clamoring over unpaid fees, some have been owed pay for over six months. One writer says that The Advocate ran several of his stories in three consecutive...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 19, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
What if you held a protest at the White House and no one really notices? Imagine holding a sit-in on Capitol Hill that was ignored by the three newspapers who cover Capitol Hill like a blanket? What happens when you hold a press event with a major celebrity who...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 19, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett |
Today is the print debut of GA Voice, the publication started by former SouthernVoice employees. The owners lost a recent bid to obtain the assets of SoVo and the debut is just the latest episode in Atlanta’s LGBT media saga. The debut of GA Voice comes as...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 19, 2010 | NLGJA Updates |
NLGJA’s Stylebook Supplement on LGBT Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects the association’s mission of...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 18, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko |
Wednesday, March 10 the San Francisco Chronicle’s political columnist duo Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross penned an incendiary piece about how the LGBT Community Center in San Francisco was supposedly near foreclosure and was seeking a $1 million cash infusion...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 18, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko |
The Bay Area Reporter broke the news on its blog last Thursday, March 11 that longtime openly gay television reporter Hank Plante will retire at the end of the month. Plante is considered one of the first on-air journalists to come out publicly. And he long has been a...