NLGJA Outlook

NLGJA Outlook is a quarterly publication that provides in-depth coverage of the state of the LGBT story and workplace issues such as domestic partner benefits, and updates readers on NLGJA’s activities at the local and national levels. With a circulation of over 3,500, NLGJA Outlook reaches decision makers at all levels of the news industry.

 

Directory of News Media Companies/Unions
With Domestic Partner Benefits

A resource for journalists and executives in the news industry who are facing increased demand from employees seeking domestic partner (DP) benefits. The directory tracks NLGJA's success in securing DP benefits for LGBT employees in over 1,400 newsrooms and features a step-by-step guide for acquiring DP benefits. This directory is designed primarily as an informational resource.

 

NLGJA English & Spanish Stylebook Supplement on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Terminology

NLGJA’s English & Spanish Stylebook Supplement on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Terminology is intended to complement the prose stylebooks of individual publications, as well as the Associated Press stylebook, the leading stylebook in U.S. newsrooms. It reflects NLGJA's mission of inclusive coverage of LGBT people, includes entries on words and phrases that have become common and features greater detail for earlier entries. It also includes an expanded contact list of LGBT organizations, with Web sites, e-mail and mailing addresses, phone numbers and, when possible, media contacts. The Stylebook Supplement was updated and translated into Spanish in 2005 as a part of NLGJA’s continued outreach to Spanish-language media.  

Lesbians and Gays in the Newsroom: 10 Years Later

This 2000 survey of journalists by NLGJA founder Leroy F. Aarons and his fellow researchers is, once again, a landmark study. Just as the first survey did in 1990, the thought-provoking findings by the research team at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication will stir debate and help not only our organization, but also the entire industry to reexamine ways to improve LGBT coverage in the years ahead.The findings are both gratifying and disturbing. On the one hand, the results from the respondents to this “10 Years Later” study show that there has been plenty of progress: Never before have LGBT journalists felt so comfortable being out in the workplace. But the survey also points to serious deficiencies. As NLGJA marks our 15th anniversary in 2005, this survey serves as a reminder of the work still to be done.