by Bach Polakowski | Aug 27, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The current issue of Press Pass Q (“A Newsletter and Trade Publication for the LGBT Media Professional”) spotlights the 2010 NLGJA convention and LGBT media summit in San Francisco. Here’s an excerpt: Of interest to those in LGBT media, the annual...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 24, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Mason Wyler, a gay porn star, recently revealed on his blog that he is HIV positive. That fact alone is enough to elicit my sympathy, but it’s the circumstances of his disclosure that disturb me the most. For the uninitiated (and I have to confess, I was until I...
by Bach Polakowski | Aug 10, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who deployed an inflatable emergency chute after landing at JFK Airport and then fled the scene, pled not guilty to charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal trespass. The details of Slater’s...
by Bach Polakowski | Jul 9, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
NLGJA board member Susan Green is a professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University with more than 20 years experience in broadcast journalism. She recently married Robin Phillips, also a fellow journalist, in Massachusetts. Susan wrote...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 27, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
Yahoo gave me my first personal email address (which I still use) and taught me how to search online. But I now almost always begin my online searches with Google (as do most people). Despite their rivalry, I love both Yahoo and Google. And since both companies have...
by Bach Polakowski | Jun 18, 2010 | Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.
The official Twitter account of the AP Stylebook, @APStylebook, has nearly 50,000 followers. So it’s a little bit funny that a satirical Twitter account, @FakeAPStylebook, has more than 135,000 followers. I ran across a June 16 tweet by Fake AP Stylebook at the...
