CNN recently gave its 2016 Diversity Ovation Award to its producer Jen Christensen, who also serves as president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, a left-wing lobbying group of reporters and editors who work to skew news to the left, or as they put it, "ensure more fair and accurate coverage of LGBTQ issues and people." This usually means pressuring editors to drop any "bigoted" conservative or religious opposition out of news stories, and covering their "community" only with positive propaganda.
CNN boss Jeff Zucker proclaimed “In her leadership roles, Jen consistently helps newsrooms around the country better understand how they can create more inclusive newsrooms in which people of diverse backgrounds can thrive.” As if CNN and other meida outlets want "inclusive" newsrooms that include conservatives.
Christensen is a producer and video editor for CNN’s health, medical and wellness unit -- often working with medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta -- and is also a writer and producer for CNN.com. She has been a member of NLGJA since 1996 and has served as President since 2013. She met her "wife" Holly Crenshaw at a 2000 NLGJA leadership conference.
“One of the most important jobs we have as journalists is to create opportunities to give a voice to those who may not otherwise have a voice,” said Christensen in an NLGJA press release. “Winning this award for recognizing the importance of including those voices in our stories, as well as as an additional recognition of all the important work that NLGJA does to make all newsrooms more inclusive, means the world to me.”
Christensen also serves on the board of UNITY Journalists of Diversity, a leftist collective for all the minority journalism/propaganda lobbies. (For example, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, who makes everyone drop the term "illegal alien" and write "undocumented citizen.")
"UNITY is very fortunate to have Jen's voice on our board and I'm thrilled that she'll be returning for another term next year," read a statement from UNITY's president-elect Neal Justin, media critic for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "That CNN recognizes the hard work she puts in, often on her own personal time, advocating for all voices, in and out of the newsroom, is a credit to both her bosses and to Jen herself. We're lucky to have her. So is the industry."
Christensen has also worked as a freelance reporter and photographer for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, the LGBT magazine The Advocate, and Sirius OutQ Radio News. Christensen started as a CNN producer in 2002, at the same time she worked as a writer for the Planet Out news service.
