Articles of interest about journalism, social media, language & more - May 15

***COVID-19

How to be around people again: A guide for back-to-office anxiety and awkwardness

Is it legal for an employer to ask if you are vaccinated?

The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

CDC Advisers Recommend Pfizer Vaccine For Adolescents

COVID-19’s impact on Asian Americans in the workplace

Honor system, paper cards won't cut it for COVID vaccine verification, experts say. 'Vaccine passports' are coming.

***JOURNALISM

What is Journalism: The existential issue 

New Study Shows Local TV Crews ‘Under Attack’ 

Women journalists face escalating violence online

There can be no free press unless journalists are able to do their jobs safely

A new tool called allows you to make annotations on live webpages 

***REPORTING

5 things journalists should know before covering research

Covering marijuana

Covering hospital mergers of physician practices: 3 tips from experienced health care journalists

How student reporters investigated their campuses

***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM

A record 44% of the 'New York Times'' subscription growth came from non-news products in Q1

More NYT subscriptions coming from non-news products in the Biden era

***JOURNALISM & RACISM 

National Geographic faced up to its racist past. Did it actually get better? 

What one newsroom learned from introducing paid positions for low-income student journalists of color 

***PRODUCING MEDIA

How Apple’s new audio subscriptions are upending podcasting

***WRITING & READING

Neural Interface Lets Man Type On Computer By Imagining Handwriting  

Engaging With Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month: A Reading List

***FAKES, FRAUDS & SCAMS 

To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring

How journalists can avoid amplifying misinformation in their stories

The Real Reason Behind the Misinformation Epidemic in Online Moms’ Groups

Psych professor: anger motivates anti-maskers, they’ll likely reform around the next divisive issue

***COVID FRAUDS 

Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media

How COVID-19 conspiracy theories reach millions of people online

The unwitting are the target of COVID-19 falsehoods online

***SOCIAL MEDIA 

Why Reddit is building an in-house agency to work with brands

Most U.S. social media users rarely or never post about politics, social issues

Twitter acquires news tech startup Scroll

A 28-year-old woman dressed like teen and walked into a high school to promote her Instagram 

On Spotify, an Arranged Marriage Between Music and Podcasts ($) 

***TIKTOK

Branding on TickTok

How TikTok personalities are making a name for themselves by delivering news to Gen Z

How TikTok Is Changing Starbucks 

***PRIVACY & SECURITY 

 It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else)

Colonial Pipeline paid close to $5 million in ransomware blackmail payment

How private is your Gmail, and should you switch? 

***LANGUAGE

Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home

Irish language ‘definitely endangered’ as linguists predict it will vanish in the next century

Beautiful or handsome? Neural language models try their hand at word substitution 

The way your name or a word rolls off the tongue can have some surprising effects

***LITERATURE

A Jane Austen museum addressing Regency-era slavery? (opinion)

***POETRY 

The incredibly complicated question of how to translate inaugural poet Amanda Gorman

Poetry Foundation hires new president 

 Poem drops stock price of China’s largest food delivery platform

Maya Angelou to be among first women to appear on the quarter