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Audio This News is So Gay (6/10/26): Examining Broadcast Coverage of LGBTQ+ Issues and Where It Falls Short

Featuring: Brennan Suen (Media Matters) and Trudy Ring (The Advocate/Windy City Times)

(left to right) Brennan Suen, Trudy Ring and Ken Schneck

Here’s what we’re covering on this week’s all new episode of This News is So Gay:

  • A new report is out examining evening broadcast news coverage of LGBTQ+ issues. What were the findings there?
  • Pride Month has us celebrating in the present, but what is a piece of LGBTQ+ history that you may not know?
  • There are yet again some people you might not know, but soon will in our latest round of, “Who the heck is that?”
  • And, of course, queer joy. Where is our roundtable finding queer joy in the news right now?

Joining us this week to answer those questions and and so many more are:

  • Deputy Research Director for Special Projects and former LGBTQ program director at Media Matters, Brennan Suen.
  • Writer, editor, fact checker, and former senior politics editor at The Advocate, Trudy Ring.
  • Hosted by Ken Schneck, editor of The Buckeye Flame.

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Dr. Ken Schneck (he/him) is the editor of The Buckeye Flame, Ohio’s LGBTQ+ newsroom. For this work, he was honored with the Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for National LGBTQ+ Journalist of the Year. He is the author of “Seriously, What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew” and three LGBTQ+ Ohio history books. Schneck spent 25 years working in higher education, including 10 years as a dean of students and 13 years as a tenured professor of education. He is a graduate of the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

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