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 Asian...
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 Andrew...
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 agreed-upon topics. Here's the...
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...
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, on sale here,...
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...
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 new...
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 New...
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 "no win" situation, no matter how...