Medill Equal Media Project

By Camille Beredjick LGBT people will have louder voices than ever this election season, and students at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. will be ready to hear them. An alumnus of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism has made a generous contribution intended to help make the journalism curriculum more LGBT-inclusive. Northwestern University’s chapter of NLGJA [...]

Unity Name Change: The time is Right

By Sue Green I think that it’s somewhat ironic that the discussion about Unity’s name should happen on the same weekend that Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day. All the players on the field, no matter their ethnicity or sexual orientation wore the number 42 in unity. They celebrated Robinson’s cultural impact not only [...]

Friends Don’t Let Friends Spin Them

By Kenneth Jost Ronald Reagan reminded us, “Trust, but verify.” Poker players know, “You trust your mother, but you cut the cards.” For journalists – gay, straight, bi, transgender or whatever – one corollary might go like this: “Friends don’t let friends spin them.” That’s what appears to have happened to some of the best [...]

My NLGJA

By Sharif Durhams Board Member, NLGJA Reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel I attended my first National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association at the beginning of my reporting career, a time when I whispered to a newsroom colleague to ask whether he was gay and planned to attend the convention too. That was a decade ago – [...]

Why I’m Headed to San Francisco

By Jen Christensen NLGJA Vice President, Broadcast Producer, CNN I’m attending the 20th anniversary of NLGJA this year, and if you’re a journalist or someone in the public relations field, I hope you will attend, too. It’s hard to believe I’ve been attending conventions since 1996. That was back when I was new to the [...]