by Bach Polakowski | Apr 26, 2012 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Latino USA has been heard on public radio since 1992, anchored by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. The weekly radio program reports on the underreported stories of Latinos. I had the pleasure of listening to a recent Latino USA episode that included two...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 15, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
Our friends at the Asian American Journalists Association–who just finished up their annual convention in Detroit–have a great fundraiser that highlights the lack of Asian American men in broadcast (tv, radio, and webcast). The AAJA Men’s Calendar,...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 5, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
In the wake of criticism of an NPR story on conversion therapy, NPR’s ombudsman and a top news official have responded to the critiques. Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos, wading into what is likely the first of many controversies involving LGBT issues as the...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 1, 2011 | Michael R. Triplett
The moment I heard an intro to Alix Spiegel’s NPR piece on conversion therapy, my reaction was: “This isn’t going to end well.” Not because the story wasn’t compelling and interesting. Instead, because these kinds of stories are a...
by Bach Polakowski | Mar 1, 2010 | Michael R. Triplett
For the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts, NPR’s Weekened Edition Saturday did a story about the history of the Boy Scouts and interviewed famous scouts, including Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder. What went unmentioned in the story, and two other stories,...