SIDEBAR: CMI survey results help in understanding readers, reaching out to advertisers

by Chuck Colbert Community Marketing Inc.’s annual LGBT community survey undoubtedly provides useful data for editors and publishers. Accordingly, Press Pass Q reached out to a dozen publishers, editors, and sales and marketing directors of gay media outlets to learn more about […]

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IN THE NEWS: Washington Blade reacts to gov’t shutdown, welcomed into White House Press Corps pool

by Joe Siegel With the federal government partially shut down, the staff of the Washington Blade is coping with an unusual situation and turning it to the paper’s advantage. Last week’s front page – during the first week of the shutdown – […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

THE BILERICO PROJECT (BILERICO.COM) celebrated its ninth anniversary as a blog on September 25, 2013. BIL BROWNING, publisher of THE BILERICO PROJECT, has been appointed to a one-year term on the board of directors of the NATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION. […]

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PRESSING QUESTIONS: Flame Magazine of Ferndale, Michigan

by David Webb Staff size and breakdown: managing editor, entertainment editor, art director, 2 graphic artists, 5 photographers, and 8 contributors. Physical dimensions of publication/Average page count: The magazine is 8 ½” x 11” high gloss, 24-48 pages Area of coverage: Metro Detroit Key […]

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IN THE NEWS: NFL’s Brendon Ayanbadejo edits Washington Blade’s sport issue; Equality Forum offers LGBT media ways of covering LGBT History Month

NFL’s Brendon Ayanbadejo edits Washington Blade’s sport issue by Joe Siegel A recent all-sports issue of the Washington Blade had a special guest editor, former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo. The issue featured news and commentary from leading sports figures, including lesbian […]

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TOP STORY: A call for the end of LGBT media “doom and gloom”

Annual LGBT Media Summit examines the industry’s past in order to inform and strengthen its future  by Chuck Colbert Over more than four decades, LGBT media outlets have stirred a movement, sustained a community and created a market. That legacy and gay […]

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SIDEBAR: Founders of Philadelphia Gay News and Bay Area Reporter honored by gay journalists group

by Chuck Colbert As a three-day convention of gay media professionals concluded in Boston, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), in a significant nod to LGBT media, inducted two founders of gay weekly newspapers into its Hall of Fame. They […]

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SIDEBAR: New speaker series targeting gays and religion named for former NLGJA president

by Chuck ColbertThe National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) is launching a new program, one the organization hopes raises the importance of and need for reporting on matters of faith and religion as they connect with politics and the LGBT community. […]

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TRANSITIONS AND MILESTONES

THE BOB ROSS FOUNDATION, named for the founder of San Francisco’s BAY AREA REPORTER, celebrated its 10th anniversary in April 2013. TIM CURRAN, former news director of OUTQ NEWS on SIRIUSXM RADIO, left the station last October and is now a documentary […]

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PRESSING QUESTIONS: South Florida Gay News of Wilton Manors, Fla.

by David Webb Staff size and breakdown: chief operations officer, associate publisher, managing editor, graphic designer, website news editor, website director, news editor, sales and marketing director, four salespersons, community outreach director and bookkeeper, plus 10 stringers Average page count: 48 pages Area of […]

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