It's not often that ordinary crime reporting intersects with mainstream reporting of LGBT concerns -- unless the story is about a hate crime. Last week, The Sun reported the murders of two Baltimore women. Their decomposing bodies were found in their apartment, and...
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+...
In addition to the discussion of errors in the blogging on the DOMA brief, the other big story about the brief is that it hasn't been much of a story, at least as far as the MSM press goes. ABC's Jake Tapper has done some good blogging on the issue, although nothing...
One of the never-ending debates in the current media landscape is how journalism in the new media is different (and better) than the old media. The one caveat to that, however, is the viral nature of information and even news and the difficulty in correcting...
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...
The news this week that Chastity Bono is transitioning to be Chaz Bono offers the world another chance to hear about a topic that many still know little about. People often ask me how gender transitions should be covered, what with being a journalist and having...
KRXQ-FM radio hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States of the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning program that airs in Sacramento and Reno apologized today for making hateful remarks about transgender youth. The two and a half hour program featured transgender advocate...
As newspapers of all genres grapple with how to address - and monetize - reader movement online, the issue can be particularly vexing for LGBT media. Weekly newspapers especially struggle with how to balance coverage in their print editions and on their Web sites....
It is a story with "ripped from the headlines" Law & Order: SVU episode written all over it. A straight, married man is found dead in the million dollar home of a gay "thruple." At least two to the three men living together in the house are having a dom/sub...
While many NLGJA members work in the LGBT press, for others I think it is an area that is easy to take for granted. I always try to pick up the local newspaper or magazine to see what kind of coverage is out there and, of course, what I shouldn't miss. Over at the...