‘It’s pretty open, which is sort of the way it should be”
Gay and lesbian Americans are fighting for the right to equal marriage. But here in Québec, the majority of those taking advantage of the laws here are mostly southern neighbors as gay marriage here enjoys quite a normalcy.
Audio Feature: Naked yoga?
Listen: NLGJA InSight reporters Mandi Rice and Ryan Mclendon go to the mat covering a local naked yoga class.
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Recap: Making a Living Online
Facing a job change or layoff but not ready to walk off the beat you love? From politics to art and food criticism, folks are setting up shop online. But is that Web site the foundation of a new career, or is it simply a place to hang out? You’ve made the move — now, how do you turn that new media into new money?
What is un-Canadian?
Differences between Canada and the United States are more than word pronunciations, adding cheese curds and gravy to French fries and being ruled by a queen, according to a panel of Canadian journalists Friday morning.
Recap: 25 things to know about social networking
Facebook, MySpace and the like offer an invaluable (and fast) reporting tool to get around closed doors and unanswered phones, with access to a broad community and pseudo-private details about people thrust into the news. Learn how to use these networks for deadline contacts and everyday ideas – and how to navigate the potential minefield of information that can’t always be trusted.
Recap: 25 things to know about social networking
Facebook, MySpace and the like offer an invaluable (and fast) reporting tool to get around closed doors and unanswered phones, with access to a broad community and pseudo-private details about people thrust into the news. Learn how to use these networks for deadline contacts and everyday ideas – and how to navigate the potential minefield of information that can’t always be trusted.
Recap: Prop. 8 + Web 2.0 = Stonewall 2.0
What happens to the movement post-Prop 8? Have grassroots online organizers overtaken brick-and-mortar gay rights organizations? Who sets the agenda, and what is it? Those on the front lines will debate how the Internet age has affected the LGBT movement.
Diminished, but not defeated
Even though some familiar faces are noticeably absent at this year’s convention, journalists are still attending for the first time, and there’s hope next year’s anniversary in San Francisco will be a better picture
Recap: Is there nothing left to say about AIDS?
More than 20 years after the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there is still no cure on the horizon. Why aren’t journalists talking about HIV/AIDS more? What stories need to be told? And How is the silence contributing to the spread of the disease?
Membership drops 30 percent
As the NLGJA convention makes its first trip abroad, it is attracting fewer than 200 members to our neighbor to the north, which might be an all-time low for the organization.
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