On this week’s episode of This News is So Gay, we chat with Tracy Baim, one of Ken’s journalism heroes, about making queer newsrooms work, the future of queer journalism and how to not take things so damn personally.
Baim co-founded the Windy City Times in 1985. She’s the author of 14 books, including “Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Newspapers in America” and has worked 41 years in local LGBTQ media, and has been inducted into the Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame as well as the Hall of Fame for the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Tracy currently serves as the executive director of Press Forward Chicago and helped spearhead the LGBTQ+ Media Mapping Project, which we discuss in full detail.
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