by Bach Polakowski | Apr 26, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. |
Latino USA has been heard on public radio since 1992, anchored by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. The weekly radio program reports on the underreported stories of Latinos. I had the pleasure of listening to a recent Latino USA episode that included two...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
Mara Keisling writes at Huffington Post about last week’s Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC where they spent an hour discussing trans issues. In addition to Keisling, from the National Center for Transgender Equality, the show featured Kate Bornstein and N.Y.C....
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 22, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
Slate magazine, in cooperation with the website Longform, does a weekly collection of the best of longform journalism. This weekend, they focused on coming-out stories. The first piece is the buzzed-about essa–My So-Called Ex-Gay Life– by Gabriel...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 18, 2012 | Guest Contributor, NLGJA |
By Sue Green I think that it’s somewhat ironic that the discussion about Unity’s name should happen on the same weekend that Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day. All the players on the field, no matter their ethnicity or sexual orientation wore the...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 16, 2012 | News, Uncategorized |
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by Bach Polakowski | Apr 12, 2012 | Matthew S. Bajko |
More than a year ago I took to task US Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) for refusing to speak to his state’s main LGBT newspaper. Bay Windows had been dogging the relatively moderate GOPer for his refusal to speak to it or any other LGBT media outlet since...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 12, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
The folks at GLAAD have commissioned a report, conducted by the University of Missouri Center on Religion & the Professions, to examine the kinds of media messages on LGBT issues, especially when it comes to religious voices. The report finds that when religious...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 12, 2012 | News, Uncategorized |
By Michael Tune More than 350 people helped us celebrate NLGJA’s inaugural year at UNITY with this year’s Headlines and Headliners. Raising more than $100,000 for NLGJA, we enjoyed a phenomenal event, and couldn’t be more thankful to the supporters, sponsors and...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 12, 2012 | News, Uncategorized |
members_only.gifWritten by Geoff Dankert You’ve heard people say that looking for work should be a full-time job, and that’s true to a point. However, if you jump into a search with a plan to spend 8-9 hours a day looking for work, you’ll quickly burn out. Read more...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 7, 2012 | Michael R. Triplett |
When will journalists learn April Fool’s should be removed from their official calendars? There is a controversy at the University of Missouri, my alma mater, over the April Fool’s edition of the campus newspaper The Maneater. The newspaper, which is not...