Resumen de At the altar

Christopher Massie

• On Jun 12, 2013, two weeks before the Supreme Court, in separate rulings, struck down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8, Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) convened a panel to discuss coverage of same-sex marriage. "We Now Pronounce You..." was hosted by the Newseum in Washington DC, and sponsored by the ACLU. Moderated by CJR's Minority Reports columnist, Jennifer Vanasco, the panel included E J Graff, the author of the book What Is Marriage For?; Steven Petrow, a New York Times columnist and former president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association; David Fontana, an associate law professor at George Washington University; and Chris Geidner, a senior political and legal reporter at BuzzFeed. The panelists speculated on what the then-unknown outcomes of those cases might be, but the bulk of the conversation was devoted to questions about how the media should cover the issue, and the relationship between media coverage and public opinion. Here, a recap of CJR's panel at the Newseum on the coverage of same-sex marriage.