by Bach Polakowski | Jul 23, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Mobile and beyond: Surprising Alabama http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4070 In the Bay Area Reporter’s July 16 edition ran a travel story about Mobile, Alabama, its gay scene and its friendly surrounding towns by Ed Walsh. Mobile: New...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 15, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
I would like to respond to my fellow blogger Oriol’s question – Does the LGBT media have more freedom than the mainstream media to blur the lines between activism and journalism in terms of how coverage in the LGBT press may be influencing the Obama...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 2, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
The old gray lady – The New York Times – spilled some ink yesterday, July 1, on the sudden closure of the New York Blade, a biweekly LGBT publication in the Metro region. According to the article, the paper laid off its editor in chief and suspended...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 29, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Thinking of going to Montreal for NLGJA’s LGBT Media Summit and Convention this September 10-13 and looking at ways to travel cheaply? Then what about joining a bunch of NLGJAers on a train trip from DC to Canada? Bob Witeck and Michael Rogers are looking at...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Being that I work at an LGBT newspaper that has seen a large drop off in advertising this year – at 36 pages an issue the paper is half the size as it used to be when I started at the Bay Area Reporter in 2001 – this guest opinion from this week’s...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 19, 2009 | Matthew S. Bajko
Why do newspapers hide their own newsrooms’ content online? Here in San Francisco both of the mainstream papers in town, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle, have redesigned their main Web sites to make it that much harder to find and just...
