by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2014 | Guest Contributor, The Heartland Project
By Bobby Calvan (Reporter, The Heartland Project) LINCOLN, Neb. – The assignment was straightforward: Produce a story about the growing diversity in the Cornhusker State’s capital city. Certainly, we could have gone straight to the U.S. Census Bureau’s website and...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2014 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
In 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, weekday evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC underreported major stories on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research, according to an analysis by Media Matters. In 2013, CNN had 11 mentions, with MSNBC and Fox...
by Bach Polakowski | Dec 30, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Robin Roberts, the co-host of Good Morning America on ABC, thanked her longtime girlfriend Amber Laign in a Facebook post on Sunday, December 29: At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude. I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my...
by Bach Polakowski | Nov 4, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Freelance writer and NLGJA member Christopher Carbone has penned a nice summary in The Advocate about media coverage of Chelsea Manning: “I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female.” With those eight words delivered in a statement read by Savannah Guthrie on the Today...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 29, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
In a recent article, NYT media and culture columnist David Carr asks: “What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared?” A Gawker article claimed that Fox News anchor Shepard Smith supposedly yelled at a waitress at a bar in the...
by Bach Polakowski | Oct 7, 2013 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Born: 1954 Died: 1988 “The bottom line is this: We are black men who are proudly gay. What we offer is our lives, our loves, our visions … We are coming home with our heads held up high.” -Joseph Beam Joseph Beam is an official honoree today for LGBT...