In its Sunday edition, July 26, the Washington Post interviewed Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, about the time in 1973 when the then 20-year-old Segal interrupted Walter Cronkite's nightly news broadcast to protest the lack of coverage of LGBT news...
There are difficult stories to tell and difficult mysteries to unravel. One of the challenges in the current journalism world is determining when is a story "a story" that deserves mainstream coverage and how do you go about getting the story....
Sometimes, you look at a story and a headline and you expect you are going to get one thing. Then, you read the story and get something different. While the story you get is quite good, you wonder what the story would have been like if you had gotten the story you...
The Journalists LGBTQ+ Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBTQ+ community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBTQ+...
Mediabistro's journalism gossip blog FishbowlDC has a letter to the Miami Herald from US Navy Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon--the chief spokesman at Guantanamo--accusing reporter Carol Rosenberg of "sexually harassing" him, including making comments suggesting that...
Okay, let me get this out first. I love reading the New York Times styles and life sections for the pure snark appeal. The people are always "perfect"--white, wealthy, well-bred--and their dilemmas always so, well, New York. So we have a classic example. A gay...
The Advocate announced this week that it has hired a former writer for the monthly publication, Jeremy Kinser, as its new senior editor. Kinser had worked over the last two years as the editor-in-chief of LA-based Frontiers, a former twice-monthly LGBT magazine that...
Mobile and beyond: Surprising Alabama http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4070 In the Bay Area Reporter's July 16 edition ran a travel story about Mobile, Alabama, its gay scene and its friendly surrounding towns by Ed Walsh. Mobile: New Orleans...
Discussing the use of epithets on this blog has been and will continue to be a challenge. An exchange in the comments section of a recent post titled "Gays and God and Obama" by fellow NLGJA blogger Michael Triplett is a great example. A reader used the N-word itself...
Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever...