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 months last...
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Chain-Ups, Sit-Ins, and Bad PR: The Media Wrap-Up
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...
GA Voice Print Issue Debuts
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 Atlanta is...
NLGJA Stylebook: “Homosexual”
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 inclusive coverage...
A lesson for LGBT news aggregator Web sites
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 from the...
Longtime out TV news reporter Hank Plante to retire
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...
Moving LGBT Media Beyond Lady GaGa
A must-read and must-watch coverage of SXSWI's "Engaging the Queer Community" panel by Queerty's Daniel Villarreal. The panel included Fausto Fernos from the Feast Of Fun, Bil Browning from The Bilerico Project, After Ellen's editor Trish Bendix, and Sinclair Sexsmith...
Is DC Agenda considering a name change?
It would appear so, according to this tweet: @DCAgenda: Cast your vote now: Should we continue as DC Agenda or resume using Washington Blade? Please use hashtag #namevote The folks at DC Agenda have consistently said they intend to keep their new name, but now that...
Is there a Double Standard: Reporting on the BB Shooters’ Religion
Did LGBT bloggers--and the mainstream press--purposely refuse to report on the religious and ethnic backgrounds of the cousins accused of shooting gay men in San Francisco with a BB gun because the cousins had Muslim-sounding last names? That's the accusation made...
Charles Kaiser Reflects on Changes at NYT
Buried in Amidst Charles Kaiser's discussion of the New York Times event with David Boies and Theodore Olson is an interesting observation about how things have changed at the NYT for LGBT journalists. Kaiser, a former NYT reporter and founding member of NLGJA's New...