by Maya Blackmun | Jun 1, 2015 | Index Page Top, News, Toolkit
Many newsrooms have questions about how to cover people who are or may be transgender. NLGJA is here to help you ensure your coverage is not only fair, but accurate.
by Bach Polakowski | Feb 9, 2015 | News
Recent coverage of Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Bruce Jenner has raised questions in many newsrooms about how to cover people who may be transgender. This is just the kind of coverage we are here to help with.
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 | May 16, 2012 | Guest Contributor
We are cross-posting a story from Bilerico Project by Dr. Jillian T. Weiss on the New York Times coverage of the death of Lorena Escalera in a fire. Concerns over the coverage has prompted a response from the paper. NY Times to LGBT Community: ‘That Will Be...
by Bach Polakowski | May 8, 2012 | Matthew S. Bajko
The murder of a transgender woman in downtown Oakland in late April has raised several coverage questions since the news broke. On Bay Area news sites that have covered the story, readers have left comments critical of journalists for disclosing the victim’s...
