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In the past 2 or 3 years, many newspapers have moved dramatically to make openly gay and lesbian employees comfortable in the workplace. That was apparent at the recent National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) convention in Miami, where more than a dozen newspapers and chains were actively recruiting and the list of event sponsors read like a FAS-FAX report: Cox Newspapers, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Gannett Co., Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Knight-Ridder, and St. Petersburg Times. One of the news organizations most active in making itself over as a gay-friendly employer is Knight-Ridder, the nation's 2nd-largest publisher of daily newspapers. Among other measures, Knight-Ridder is running "sexual orientation in the workplace" seminars at all its newspapers.