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...
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 part of the...
Throughout Palm Springs and the greater Coachella Valley in southern California a new LGBT publication hit the streets today (Thursday, April 5). The fact that the new monthly magazine Desert Outlook exists at all in today's downsizing print media environment is...
Los Angeles' LGBT community has a long history with being targeted by undercover police stings and raids of gay bars. One such incident the night of New Year's 1967 at the Black Cat Tavern sparked a riot, demonstrations, a legal case and gave birth to what became the...
Today the American Society of News Editors released its annual report on the makeup of the country's newsrooms as it closed out its three-day confab in Washington, D.C. While the group found a "very slim increase" in newsroom employees last year, for the third...
Sean Bugg of MetroWeekly has delved again into the use of LGBT as an inclusive shortand for the entire LGBT community. In a posting on Bilerico Project, Bugg asks whether LGBT is sometimes being misused and overinclusive, failing to recognize that one of those four...
Sundays are great for breaking the habit of quickly reading the news and settling in for something longer, less direct. Today, there are two great longform pieces of journalism about the lives of gay men worth checking out. First is the New York Times piece on the...
It's difficult for some journalists, especially LGBT journalists, to figure out how they feel about the GLAAD Commentator Accountability Project. While it has been praised by some, it has raised concerns from others. Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute--who...
The recent coverage of Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, taking a majority stake of The New Republic has had varying degrees of gayness. LGBT media, not surprisingly, was rather direct about mentioning Hughes is gay. "Gay Facebook Founder Chris Hughes Buys 'The...
HH.jpg“Headlines & Headliners” Benefit is sponsored CNN and Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Washington, D.C. – Today the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) announced that CNN's Soledad O'Brien and HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell will...