by Bach Polakowski | Aug 29, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
Since our last post on how journalists should deal with the sexuality of new Apple CEO Tim Cook, an interesting debate has emerged over the ethics of “outing” Cook. Felix Salmon, a Reuters blogger, kicked things off by saying: Tim Cook is now the most...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2011 | NLGJA Updates |
Some big news was made last night at the NLGJA convention in Philadelphia when President David Steinberg announced the board has approved him to officially continue talks about NLGJA joining UNITY, an alliance of “journalists of color” that includes the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 25, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
As NLGJA’s annual convention begins today in Philadelphia, the national news provides one of the enduring ethical questions when covering LGBT folks: when do we say someone is gay (or lesbian or bisexual or transgender)? From our very first convention where...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 18, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
So you probably heard that former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell walked of the Piers Morgan show on CNN after she found questions about same-sex marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to be “rude” and not part of the allegedly...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 17, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
One of the sessions at the upcoming NLGJA Convention in Philadelphia, which starts next week, is a session titled Reputation on the Line: Building & Maintaining Credibility featuring Bil Browning and Jillian Weiss from Bilerico Project and David Hauslib, who...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 15, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
Our friends at the Asian American Journalists Association–who just finished up their annual convention in Detroit–have a great fundraiser that highlights the lack of Asian American men in broadcast (tv, radio, and webcast). The AAJA Men’s Calendar,...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 9, 2011 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
NLGJA board member Barbara Dozetos has written an excellent defense of LGBT media for The Huffington Post: As the general population grows more accepting of our community, is the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) news media still relevant? Do we really...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 5, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
In the wake of criticism of an NPR story on conversion therapy, NPR’s ombudsman and a top news official have responded to the critiques. Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos, wading into what is likely the first of many controversies involving LGBT issues as the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 3, 2011 | Matthew S. Bajko |
I have to say it has been a long time since I read a news story that made my blood boil – but a recent news obit about a Somalia-born teen killed in the Norway massacre on a camp island this week still has me seething. From the headline to the last graph of the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 1, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett |
The moment I heard an intro to Alix Spiegel’s NPR piece on conversion therapy, my reaction was: “This isn’t going to end well.” Not because the story wasn’t compelling and interesting. Instead, because these kinds of stories are a...
