Is It Unethical NOT to Report That Apple’s CEO is Gay?

Since our last post on how journalists should deal with the sexuality of new Apple CEO Tim Cook, an interesting debate has emerged over the ethics of “outing” Cook. Felix Salmon, a Reuters blogger, kicked things off by saying: Tim Cook is now the most powerful gay man in the world. This is newsworthy, no? [...]

UNITY Asks NLGJA to Join Alliance

Some big news was made last night at the NLGJA convention in Philadelphia when President David Steinberg announced the board has approved him to officially continue talks about NLGJA joining UNITY, an alliance  of “journalists of color” that includes the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and the Native American Journalists [...]

Is Apple’s New CEO Gay?

As NLGJA’s annual convention begins today in Philadelphia, the national news provides one of the enduring ethical questions when covering LGBT folks: when do we say someone is gay (or lesbian or bisexual or transgender)?  From our very first convention where Andrew Sullivan and Michelangelo Signorile had a heated discussion over when to “out” someone, [...]

Asking Gay Questions

So you probably heard that former U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell walked of the Piers Morgan show on CNN after she found questions about same-sex marriage and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to be “rude” and not part of the allegedly agreed-upon topics.  Here’s the clip On Sunday, we saw presidential candidate Michele Bachman stay rigidly [...]

Admitting Mistakes

One of the sessions at the upcoming NLGJA Convention in Philadelphia, which starts next week, is a session titled Reputation on the Line: Building & Maintaining Credibility featuring Bil Browning and Jillian Weiss from Bilerico Project and David Hauslib, who launched Queerty.  The goal is to look at some recent scandals involving blogger identity and [...]