by Bach Polakowski | Jun 17, 2014 | News
LAExclusive_logo.jpg Washington, D.C. – The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) will be presenting the first NLGJA Lisa Ben Award for Achievement in Features Coverage to Edythe Eyde. Eyde, who wrote by the pen name Lisa Ben, is the creator...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 16, 2014 | News
NLGJA endevors to provide assistance in the form of free full or partial convention registration at early bird rates to as many members possible. Unfortunately, we often cannot provide assistance to all who request help.NLGJA members interested in getting assistance...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 5, 2014 | News
connect-vert.jpg The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) is hosting its student journalism project, Connect, at the 2014 LGBT Media Summit & Convention on August 17-24, in Chicago. Each year, NLGJA chooses students from across the...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 1, 2014 | Timeline
As the organization continues to expand, Adam Pawlus is hired as executive director.
by Bach Polakowski | May 15, 2014 | Guest Contributor
By Benjamin Ryan (Editor-at-Large, POZ) Soy sauce has become the latest supermarket item to contain the answer to HIV, according to a savory smorgasbord of reporting in the popular press. But don’t go downing bottles of the brine just yet, because there’s a small...
by Bach Polakowski | May 14, 2014 | News
100920_new_york_times_building_ap_328.jpg The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association would like to congratulate Dean Baquet on becoming the first African-American executive editor of The New York Times. NLGJA believes diversity improves news coverage and...
by Bach Polakowski | May 12, 2014 | News
UNITY_JOURNALISTS.jpg Media Contact:Roberto Quinones, Executive Director UNITY : Journalists for Diversity Roberto@unityjournalists.org (703) 854-3585McLean, Va., May 12, 2014 — UNITY : Journalists for Diversity is pleased to announce the appointment of Roberto...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 24, 2014 | News
NLGJA-NorCal-Logo-web.jpg The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Northern California chapter, is pleased to announce the sixth annual Bob Ross Student Scholarship. Sponsored by the Bob Ross Foundation, the $2,500 scholarship honors Northern California...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2014 | Guest Contributor, The Heartland Project
By Bobby Calvan (Reporter, The Heartland Project) LINCOLN, Neb. – The assignment was straightforward: Produce a story about the growing diversity in the Cornhusker State’s capital city. Certainly, we could have gone straight to the U.S. Census Bureau’s website and...
by Bach Polakowski | Apr 23, 2014 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
In 2013 and the first quarter of 2014, weekday evening cable news shows on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC underreported major stories on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research, according to an analysis by Media Matters. In 2013, CNN had 11 mentions, with MSNBC and Fox...
