by Bach Polakowski | Aug 3, 2011 | Matthew S. Bajko
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...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 28, 2011 | Matthew S. Bajko
When I speak to student journalists or professional mainstream news rooms about covering the LGBT community, one of the points I like to make is that LGBT people can be sources for stories that are not LGBT-specific. It is what us in the LGBT press call finding the...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 21, 2011 | Matthew S. Bajko
Am I the only one who read the New York Times’ piece on the secret life of state Senator Carl Kruger in Sunday’s paper who was confused as to why the nearly 3,000 word article not once used the word ‘gay?” Instead, the story seems to have done...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 3, 2011 | Matthew S. Bajko
Talk about lacking backbone and not wanting to reach out to all of his constituents. But U.S. Senator Scott Brown doesn’t deem it important to discuss LGBT issues with the Bay State’s premier LGBT paper, Bay Windows. The paper has been calling out the GOP...
by Bach Polakowski | Sep 30, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko
The gay sex scandal swirling around the Atlanta area’s Bishop Eddie Long has brought to the forefront coverage issues journalists wrestle with when writing about a complex and complicated story. To date four men have come forward claiming that when they were in...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 2, 2010 | Matthew S. Bajko
Want to throw your own two cents into the ongoing debate about the longevity and viability of the nation’s LGBT press? Then join us in San Francisco Thursday, September 2 for the 7th annual LGBT Media Summit where that question and other concerns and issues...
