Can ChatGPT Pass AP Lit?
/A tech journalist goes back to high school to find out what OpenAI’s Chatbot can do.
ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Literature as antidote
/Poetry was always more than poetry in Russia. Former Soviet prisoners are said to have attested that Russian classics saved their lives in the labor camps when they retold the novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky to other inmates. Russian literature could not prevent the Gulags, but it did help prisoners survive them.
Slaves give birth to a dictatorship and a dictatorship gives birth to slaves. There is only one way out of this vicious circle, and that is through culture. Literature is an antidote to the poison of the Russian imperialist way of thinking. The road to the Bucha massacre leads not through Russian literature, but through its suppression.
Mikhail Shishkin writing in The Atlantic
Articles of Interest about the virus, journalism, lit, writing, and more - Good Friday Edition
/***THE VIRUS
Hospital are laying off workers in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic
‘By December, we are going to go through this again’
The Asian Countries That Beat Covid-19 Have to Do It Again
Grandma whose misfired text to teen led to Thanksgiving invite loses husband to coronavirus
Coronavirus Will Shape the Future of Surveillance
MIT Will Post Free Plans Online for an Emergency Ventilator That Can Be Built for $100
***THE VIRUS AT HOME
Should Young Children Wear Masks?
Why You Shouldn’t Wash Produce With Soap During The Coronavirus Crisis
You’re not imagining it: We’re all having intense coronavirus dreams
***VIDEO CONFERENCING
How Microsoft Teams will use AI to filter out typing, barking, and other noise from video calls
Zoom vs. Google Hangouts: Video chat apps for working and keeping in touch compared
Google is rebranding Hangouts Chat as just Google Chat
The Zoom privacy and security issues you still need to worry about
Stolen Zoom passwords and meeting IDs are already being shared on the dark web
Racial Slurs And Swastikas Fuel Civil Rights Pressure On Zoom
***JOURNALISM: COVERING THE VIRUS
Jerry Falwell Jr. Apparently Thinks It’s Criminal to Report on Liberty University
How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”
An Oklahoma newspaper has apologized for a coronavirus April Fools' story after facing backlash
Covering biomedical research preprints amid the coronavirus: 6 things to know
What is HIPAA and how does it affect our understanding of the coronavirus?
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
US newspapers face 'extinction-level' crisis
Pandemic Threatens Local Papers Even As Readers Devour Their Coverage
Media The newspaper industry was already faltering. Will coronavirus obliterate it?
Removing paywalls on coronavirus coverage is noble. It also makes no sense.
The Plain Dealer lays off 22 journalists, citing 'industry challenges'
400 Local Newsrooms Receive Grants to Support Coronavirus Work
***JOURNALISM
Reciting the First Amendment lines up with CDC hand washing guidelines
***STUDENT MEDIA
The news must go on: App State’s student-run media continue remotely
Can (and should) we publish the name of a student who tested positive for COVID-19?
Salve students rise to challenge of keeping school’s media running in face of coronavirus
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Nearly three-in-ten Americans believe COVID-19 was made in a lab
Coronavirus in US: FDA orders Texas church to stop selling fake coronavirus medicine
Misinformation, Distrust May Contribute To Black Americans' COVID-19 Deaths
What Role Should Newsrooms Play in Debunking COVID-19 Misinformation?
Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the coronavirus pandemic
Misinformation about an outbreak like Covid-19 is important public health data
Facebook's lack of moderators is hurting its fight against misinformation
***WRITING & READING
Female Writers Examine The Words That Undermine Women
Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists
How to read coronavirus news like a science writer
***LITERATURE
What Literature Can Teach Us About Epidemics
‘Weird tale’ by Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered
The Nobel-Winning Economist who wants you to read more Fiction
***POETRY
Bruce Dawe's passing is a great loss but his remarkable, socially aware poetry will remain relevant
Joyelle McSweeney’s Poetry of Catastrophe
National Poetry Celebrations go online
***INTERNET
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 29
/***WRITING & READING
The Enemies of Writing: A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/packer-hitchens/605365/
JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-son-christopher-dies-aged-95
Exploring various scholars' rationales for self-plagiarism https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/10/essay-rationales-self-plagiarism
***GRAMMAR
Who do they think they are? The battle over the singular use of “they” has been waged for centuries https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/01/18/who-do-they-think-they-are
English's pronoun problem is centuries old https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/english-s-pronoun-problem-is-centuries-old-120012301829_1.html
***JOURNALISM
7 things to consider before adopting AI in your news organisation: A training module for newsrooms https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2019/12/12/7-things-to-consider/
Journalism still has power: But not the way you’d hope https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/hegseth-trump-gallagher.php
The latest newspaper chain to face Alden Global Capital cost-cutting https://www.axios.com/media-local-newspapers-private-equity-0add6bce-f44a-4938-82bb-6d4bb01068c8.html
Jim Lehrer's 16 Rules for Practicing Journalism with Integrity www.openculture.com/2020/01/jim-lehrers-16-rules-for-being-a-journalist-with-integrity.html
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Flipboard expands into local news https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/28/flipboard-expands-into-local-news/
Facebook awards $700,000 in local news grants https://www.axios.com/facebook-local-news-grants-advertising-f9f7048b-2bd2-4eb6-9bfc-6fe72fb5c359.html
The New York Times used to be afraid of BuzzFeed. Now it’s hired its biggest star. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/28/21112608/ben-smith-new-york-times-buzzfeed-media-revenue-jonah-peretti
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Big Tech platforms struggle to police deepfakes ahead of the 2020 elections https://www.axios.com/deepfakes-big-tech-policy-facebook-reddit-tiktok-ca7a99b8-e571-4b0b-933a-27e4b2c0b0f7.html
2020 rules of the road for the Age of Misinformation https://www.axios.com/2020-rules-of-the-road-for-the-age-of-misinformation-87bc3f7e-b064-4b47-bc71-7639b9a82b8a.html
How Swedes Were Fooled By One Of The Biggest Scientific Bluffs Of Our Time https://medium.com/@Soccermatics/how-swedes-were-fooled-by-one-of-the-biggest-scientific-bluffs-of-our-time-de47c82601ad
A new text message scam is disguising itself as a FedEx notification https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/business/fedex-text-scam-trnd/
How To Spot 2020 Election Disinformation https://www.npr.org/2020/01/23/798809217/how-to-spot-2020-election-disinformation
Clearview AI Says Its Facial Recognition Software Identified A Terrorism Suspect: The Cops Say That's Not True https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-nypd-facial-recognition
Half of Americans don’t know 6m Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/22/holocaust-survey-americans-pew-research-center
American Distrust Of The Voting Process Is Widespread, Poll Finds https://www.npr.org/2020/01/21/798088827/american-distrust-of-the-voting-process-is-widespread-npr-poll-finds
Is this video “missing context,” “transformed,” or “edited”? This effort wants to standardize how we categorize visual misinformation https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/is-this-video-missing-context-transformed-or-edited-this-effort-wants-to-standardize-how-we-categorize-visual-misinformation/
Misinformation about coronavirus tests Facebook, Google and China https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-misinformation-facebook-twitter-google-china-246a0325-b4ea-4465-92ae-5f364a7e965c.html
The New York Times tested blockchain to help you identify faked photos on your timeline https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/heres-how-the-new-york-times-tested-blockchain-to-help-you-identify-faked-photos-on-your-timeline/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21066815/twitter-edit-button-jack-dorsey-says-no
Twitter apologises for letting ads target neo-Nazis and bigots https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51112238
Targeting TikTok’s privacy alone misses a larger issue: Chinese state control https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misses-a-much-larger-point/
***LANGUAGE
How we use language, with a look under the hood https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/mcintyre/bs-ed-mcintyre-20200111-tmf465vuubdebmtpu3p6ngsz2q-story.html
Things You Didn't Know Had Names https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63034/48-things-you-didnt-know-had-names
Using a child’s identified pronouns might feel complicated, but it’s crucial. Here’s why (opinion) https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/01/16/using-childs-identified-pronouns-might-feel-complicated-its-crucial-heres-why/
The alphabets at risk of extinction https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200121-the-alphabets-at-risk-of-extinction
Author Interview: Dennis Baron On 'What's Your Pronoun?' https://www.npr.org/2020/01/26/799629318/author-interview-dennis-baron-on-what-s-your-pronoun
'Baby Shark,' Now In 19 Languages And Counting — Including A Navajo Tongue https://www.npr.org/2020/01/28/800557518/baby-shark-now-in-19-languages-and-counting-including-a-navajo-tongue
Discover the Disappearing Turkish Language That is Whistled, Not Spoken www.openculture.com/2020/01/discover-the-turkish-language-that-is-whistled-not-spoken.html
***LITERATURE
The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known https://lithub.com/the-obscure-editions-of-jane-austen-novels-that-made-her-internationally-known/
UCLA receives $25 million from Uniqlo founder for Japanese literature and culture studies http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/25-million-uniqlo-founder-japanese-literature-and-culture
Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore home was named a literary landmark https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/edgar-allan-poe-baltimore-literary-landmark-trnd/index.html
Virginia Woolf Books To Read If You Want To Explore 20th Century Literature https://www.republicworld.com/lifestyle/books/virginia-woolf-books-to-read-to-explore-20th-century-literature.html
Is Jane Austen the Antidote to Social Media Overload? https://daily.jstor.org/is-jane-austen-the-antidote-to-social-media-overload/
Jeanine Cummins' migrant book 'American Dirt' is problematic; author’s note makes it worse https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/01/21/american-dirt-jeanine-cummins-book-review-mexican-migrant/4497859002/
***POETRY
What happens when machines learn to write poetry: should artificial intelligence alter our appreciation of art? http://bit.ly/30CkvI3
Have You Abandoned Your New Year's Resolutions? Tell Us In A Poem https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/795953834/have-you-abandoned-your-new-years-resolutions-tell-us-in-a-poem
'Ghost poetry': fight over Samuel Beckett's Nobel win revealed in archives https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/17/ghost-poetry-fight-over-samuel-beckett-nobel-win-revealed-in-archives
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Augmented reality contacts are real, and could be here sooner than you think https://mashable.com/article/augmented-reality-contact-lenses-mojo-vision/
The Culling Has Begun’: Inside the iHeartMedia Layoffs https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/iheartmedia-mass-layoffs-937513
Could iHeart layoffs be the beginning of local radio’s endgame? https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/01/could-iheart-layoffs-be-the-beginning-of-local-radios-endgame.htm
2020 won't be the year digital election ads surpass TV https://www.axios.com/2020-digital-election-ads-tv-75cd82b1-b9a1-4637-b885-8aa654e63291.html
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Clearview app lets strangers find your name, info with snap of a photo, report says https://www.cnet.com/news/clearview-app-lets-strangers-find-your-name-info-with-snap-of-a-photo-report-says
Facial Recognition could replace the fingerprint https://story.californiasunday.com/facial-recognition
The Secret History of Facial Recognition https://www.wired.com/story/secret-history-facial-recognition/
Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/27/most-americans-support-right-to-have-some-personal-info-removed-from-online-searches/
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 13
/***LITERATURE
Revisiting American Short Stories Selected by John Updike https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/books/review/revisiting-american-short-stories-selected-by-john-updike.html
South American Literature’s Master of Malaise https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/books/review/juan-carlos-onetti.html
My Accidental Journey to Mr. Darcy’s Estate https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/journey-pride-and-prejudice-colin-firth.html
The importance of postcolonial literature https://dailytimes.com.pk/534227/the-importance-of-postcolonial-literature-daily-times/
The Most Anticipated Books of 2020, According to GoodReads https://fortune.com/2020/01/06/most-anticipated-best-new-books-2020-goodreads/
Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author who spurred a memoir boom, dies at 52 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html
How Jane Austen’s unfinished novel ‘Sanditon’ became a TV show https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/how-jane-austens-unfinished-novel-sanditon-became-a-tv-show/
100 Best Books by Black Female Authors, 1850 - Present https://zora.medium.com/100-best-books-by-black-women-authors-zora-canon-46b3492bdded
***WRITING & READING
Racism Scandal In The Romance Writing Industry https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793572217/racism-scandal-in-the-romance-writing-industry
Romance Writers Of America Leadership Resign https://www.npr.org/2020/01/09/795002052/romance-writers-of-america-leadership-resigns
***GRAMMAR
In an age of shifting attitudes about gender identity, ‘they’ was the word of the decade https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/9/21058633/nonbinary-gender-identity-my-pronouns-american-dialect-society-linguistics-they-conversation
The idiots’s guide to the apostrophe http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/gene-weingarten-pickin-up-where-the-apostrophe-protection-society-left-off/2020/01/02/e7479cca-1b8a-11ea-87f7-f2e91143c60d_story.html
***JOURNALISM
Prescription for Journalists: Less Time Studying Twitter, More Time Studying Math https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/prescription-for-journalists/
Roundup of 2019 Tips for Reporting, Press regulator & Ombudsman news https://www.imediaethics.org/roundup-of-2019-tips-for-reporting-press-regulator-ombudsman-news/
We're entering a new golden age of China journalism https://www.axios.com/journalism-china-media-5caac2b6-ad6b-45b8-9154-9f94c8369fb1.html
News coverage gets geo-fragmented https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/news-coverage-gets-geo-fragmented/
ProPublica Outlines Lessons from 3-Year Collaborative Journalism Project https://nonprofitquarterly.org/propublica-outlines-lessons-from-3-year-collaborative-journalism-project/
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: My computer was hacked to 'download child pornography https://thehill.com/homenews/media/477482-paul-krugman-my-computer-was-hacked-to-download-child-pornography
7 Tips For Covering Horrific Events At Houses Of Worship — And Treating Victims Right https://religionunplugged.com/news/2020/1/10/weekend-plug-in-top-journalists-offer-advice-covering-horrific-events-at-houses-of-worship
Article or Ad: Teen Vogue removes glowing Facebook story without explanation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/08/article-or-ad-teen-vogue-removes-glowing-facebook-story-without-explanation/
6 examples of newsroom-library collaborations https://ijnet.org/en/story/6-examples-newsroom-library-collaborations
***MEDIA & THE LAW
10 Major Media Lawsuits from 2019 https://www.imediaethics.org/10-major-media-lawsuits-from-2019/
CNN confirms a settlement has been reached with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/07/nick-sandmann-cnn-confirms-settlement-covington-catholic-student/2837478001/
Judge sides with press over University of Wyoming, orders release of records related to president's demotion https://trib.com/news/local/education/judge-sides-with-press-over-university-of-wyoming-orders-release/article_28ef76bd-a59a-5224-bf32-bc01c89ba761.html
Federal Judge Rules California ‘Gig Labor’ Law Applies To Freelance Journalists https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/06/ab5-freelance-journalist-exemption-denied/
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Plight of Newspapers Generates Uncommon Bipartisan Unity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/technology/google-facebook-newspapers.html
Trump Fans Aim to Buy San Diego’s One America News Network https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/01/10/trump-fans-aim-to-buy-san-diegos-one-america-news-network-wsj-says/
CNN Settles a 16-Year-Long Labor Dispute With Broadcast Technicians for record-setting $76 Million https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cnn-agrees-record-76-million-settlement-national-labor-relations-board-1268678
What went wrong with virtual reality? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50265414
***STUDENT MEDIA
Ruling in favor of UMass Student Newspaper https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2020/01/01/sjc-rules-favor-umass-student-newspaper-editor/KUmVRgblgA8RuLdRltajPP/story.html
Student Newspaper files complaint against Board of Governors over open meetings https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/01/dth-lawsuit-0108
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Facebook bans deepfakes in the runup to 2020 election, but ‘shallowfakes’ still allowed https://www.fastcompany.com/90449237/facebook-bans-deepfakes-in-the-runup-to-2020-election-but-shallowfakes-still-allowed
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/disinformation-for-hire-black-pr-firms
News literacy lessons: How a satirical story about Democrats and Qasem Soleimani was spread as fact. Plus a doctored video of Joe Biden.https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/01/07/news-literacy-lessons-how-satirical-story-about-democrats-qasem-soleimani-was-spread-fact-plus-doctored-video-joe-biden/
Fake text messages about a military draft are being sent to Americans https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-military-draft-text-message-warning-2020-1
“Rated false”: Here’s the most interesting new research on fake news and fact-checking https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/rated-false-heres-the-most-interesting-new-research-on-fake-news-and-fact-checking/
Texas school district falls for email scam, hands over $2.3 millionhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/texas-school-district-falls-for-scam-email-hands-over-2-3-million/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/03/snapchat-quietly-acquired-ai-factory-the-company-behind-its-new-cameos-feature-for-166m/
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056856/twitter-replies-limit-option-compose-screen-beta-app-features-new-ces-2020
***TIKTOK
What does TikTok offer publishers? https://medium.com/@corinne_podger/what-does-tiktok-offer-publishers-e6ed0a2b0d63
TikTok is the best place on the internet. We should all delete it https://www.cnet.com/news/tiktok-is-the-best-place-on-the-internet-we-should-all-delete-it/
TikTok’s parent company has secretly built a deepfakes maker https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/03/tiktok-deepfakes-face-swap/
***LANGUAGE
Is this the most powerful word in the English language? www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200109-is-this-the-most-powerful-word-in-the-english-language
Where Do Finger Names Come From? https://daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Jan 3
/***WRITING & READING
The Best Books Of 2019, According To Everyone https://digg.com/2019/best-books-2019-trick-mirror-nickel-boys-say-nothing
The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. It never quite came. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad
How to Use Zotero and Scrivener for Research-Driven Writing https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-use-zotero-and-scrivener-for-research-driven-writing
We Learned to Write the Way We Talk (Opinion) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/27/opinion/sunday/internet-writing-text-emotion.html
Science is science writing; science writing is science https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/29/science-is-science-writing-science-writing-is-science/
Bookstore suspends sales of Sociology textbook during plagiarism claims https://www.richmond-news.com/news/kpu-bookstore-suspends-textbook-sales-during-plagiarism-claims-1.24041139
***GRAMMAR
62 Grammar Memes And Jokes From 2019 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emersonmalone/grammar-language-memes-punctuation-2019
Correct Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahschweppecopy/quibbles-bits-newsletter-buzzfeed-copydesk-corrections
***JOURNALISM
The Most Engaging Stories of 2019 https://blog.chartbeat.com/2019/12/18/most-engaging-stories-2019/
News deserts will proliferate — but so will new solutions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/news-deserts-will-proliferate-but-so-will-new-solutions/
‘Stunning piece of propaganda’: Journalists blast One America News series https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/19/journalists-blast-one-america-news-series-giuliani-087893
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
More Than 1 in 5 U.S. Papers Has Closed. This Is the Result https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/reader-center/local-news-deserts.html
California Writers, Photogs Sue State Over New Law That Chokes Freelance Journalism http://sacobserver.com/2020/01/california-writers-photogs-sue-state-over-new-law-that-chokes-freelance-journalism/
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Future of the News Industry, According to Student Journalists https://www.teenvogue.com/story/student-journalists-future-news
New Mexico Journalism Department rebuked by professional organizations https://www.dailylobo.com/article/2019/12/unm-journalism-department-criticized-by-spj-nahj
University of New Mexico clashing with student journalists over public records https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/unm-clashing-with-student-journalists-over-public-records/article_a2c8be9c-28c5-11ea-9d01-ab9b78430600.html
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Snopes, Facebook And Fake Accounts https://www.npr.org/2019/12/22/790553909/snopes-facebook-and-fake-accounts
Lithuanians are using software to fight back against fake news https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/24/lithuanians-are-using-software-to-fight-back-against-fake-news
Social media hosted a lot of fake health news this year. Here's what went most viral. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/social-media-hosted-lot-fake-health-news-year-here-s-n1107466
Chief Justice Warns of Internet Disinformation, Urges Civics Educationhttps://ijr.com/chief-justice-warns-of-internet-disinformation-urges-civics-education/
Stop abbreviating 2020. Police say it leaves you open to fraud and could cost you big https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/do-not-abbreviate-year-2020-in-date/2795857001/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
From Instagram to TikTok: How social media evolved this decade https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/tech/social-media-end-of-decade/index.html
Twitter And Facebook's Race To The Bottom https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/twitter-and-facebooks-race-to-the-bottom
How to beat your social media addiction, according to a therapist https://www.cnet.com/how-to/the-right-way-to-beat-your-social-media-addiction-according-to-a-therapist/
This dad took his son to Mongolia just to get him off his phone https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50830944
***LANGUAGE
3 internet language trends from 2019, explained http://theconversation.com/3-internet-language-trends-from-2019-explained-128588
World's languages describe emotions in very different ways https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-12-19/emotions-universal-languages-differ
Teaching a computer Chinese made it excellent at English https://qz.com/1775729/baidus-chinese-language-algorithm-is-excellent-at-english/
Google Assistant Can Now Translate Speech Through Your Phone https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/
A translation crisis at the border https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/a-translation-crisis-at-the-border
Books examine how words influence American culture https://www.roanoke.com/entertainment/arts/review-books-examine-how-words-influence-american-culture/article_6abedf12-2eae-5f57-b0d9-2f9cbe95948d.html
***LITERATURE
'Little Women': Book Vs. Movie https://www.npr.org/2019/12/21/790422188/little-women-book-vs-movie
Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 https://apnews.com/013be99c46bd6558c30202c313cf8925
TS Eliot’s hidden love letters reveal intense, heartbreaking affair https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/02/ts-eliot-hidden-love-letters-reveal-intense-heartbreaking-affair-emily-hale
1924 Copyrighted Works To Become Part Of The Public Domain https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/792302139/1924-copyrighted-works-to-become-part-of-the-public-domain
The Decade in Fiction https://thewalrus.ca/the-decade-in-fiction/
The Asian-American Literature Canon Breakers https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/the-asian-american-canon-breakers
Barbara Testa Dies at 91; Her Discovery Rocked the Literary World https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/books/barbara-testa-dead.html
***POETRY
Poet Louis Jenkins found beauty in the Midwestern mundane https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/12/21/poet-louis-jenkins-found-beauty-in-the-midwestern-mundane
Inspired by Emily Dickinson, Alice Tippit’s paintings play out as visual poetry https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-03/emily-dickinson-alice-tippit-review
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
They claim this new security system is uncrackable and will revolutionize privacy https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/new-security-system-to-revolutionise-privacy/
The hottest new smartphone chat app is secretly spying on you https://bgr.com/2019/12/23/totok-app-spying-on-android-and-iphone-users-nyt-report-says/
Schools are using facial recognition to try to stop shootings. Here’s why they should think twice. https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/12/20/21028124/schools-facial-recognition-mass-shootings
Firms don’t agree as to what California’s new data privacy law requires https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-26/california-internet-data-privacy-law
Ring and Amazon slammed with a federal lawsuit over failed camera securityhttps://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ring-amazon-federal-lawsuit-hacks/
***PRODUCING MEDIA
YouTube burnout is real. Here's how creators are coping https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/18/tech/youtube-creator-burnout/index.html
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Dec 20
/***WRITING & READING
Indie booksellers persevere despite Amazon, rising costs https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/indie-booksellers-persevere-amazon-rising-costs-67656831
The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019 https://lithub.com/the-78-best-book-covers-of-2019
***GRAMMAR
The rightness of the singular ‘they’ (opinion) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-15/they-singular-grammar-transgender-history
The impeachment debate has sparked a linguistic war over the word “irregardless” https://qz.com/1771950/impeachment-debates-reignite-the-linguistic-fight-over-irregardless/
***JOURNALISM
Newsrooms begin tinkering with 5G to get ahead of the curve https://www.axios.com/5g-newsroom-experiments-new-york-times-e22a6aad-cdff-4d20-9247-cc3465f52ae9.html
A tweet gave a journalist a seizure: His case brings new meaning to the idea of ‘online assault’ https://nationalpost.com/news/world/a-tweet-gave-a-journalist-a-seizure-his-case-brings-new-meaning-to-the-idea-of-online-assault
***JOURNALISM & THE LAW
State legislators are subject to public-records law, Washington state Supreme Court rules https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/
Nevada's Top Court Says The State's Journalist Shield Law Also Applies To Bloggers https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191211/10494243555/nevadas-top-court-says-states-journalist-shield-law-also-applies-to-bloggers.shtml
***JOURNALISM: BEST OF
Best news bloopers 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7aObzNGuI
The best visual and data-driven stories of 2019 https://pudding.cool/process/pudding-cup-2019/
2019’s Best Investigative Stories from China https://gijn.org/2019/12/16/editors-pick-2019s-best-investigative-stories-from-china/
***JOURNALISM IN THE MOVIES
Hollywood’s 10 Worst Depictions of Female Music Journalists https://variety.com/feature/hollywood-10-worst-female-music-journalists-crazy-heart-richard-jewell-1203435207
The Fictional Journalism of ‘Richard Jewell’ and ‘Bombshell’ https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/12/17/21025944/richard-jewell-bombshell-fox-news-megyn-kelly-kathy-scruggs
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
As print and digital newsrooms struggle, local broadcast stations are making money ‘hand over fist’ https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/the-rich-get-richer-local-broadcast-readies-for-a-3-2-billion-political-ad-bonanza-in-2020/
***STUDENT MEDIA
College journalists in New Jersey describe years of “intimidation, harassment, threats” by administrators https://splc.org/2019/12/college-journalists-in-new-jersey-describe-years-of-intimidation-harassment-threats-by-administrators/
AB 5 hurts student journalists https://thedailyaztec.com/97798/opinion/ab-5-hurts-student-journalists/
***FAKE NEWS
How We See Disinformation https://disinfopoll.cjr.org/
30 Viral Fakes That Defined the 2010s https://gizmodo.com/30-viral-fakes-that-defined-the-2010s-1838215357
I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552 https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/how-i-created-a-deepfake-of-mark-zuckerberg-and-star-treks-data/
Facebook funding Reuters deepfakes course for newsrooms https://www.axios.com/exclusive-facebook-funding-reuters-deepfakes-course-for-newsrooms-eccb3daa-4627-4a59-be64-44d9554f85da.html
Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/12/fighting-misinformation-requires-journalism-not-secret-algorithms/
***LANGUAGE
The Language You Speak Influences What You Look At https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-and-mind/201912/the-language-you-speak-influences-what-you-look
How to build a language http://news.mit.edu/2019/constructed-languages-linguistics-1218
Why North Carolina Is the Most Linguistically Diverse State https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/north-carolina-linguistics
***LITERATURE
Peter Pan’s dark side emerges with release of original manuscript https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/15/peter-pans-dark-side-emerges-with-release-of-original-manuscript
Extremely Shortened Versions of Classic Books For Lazy People https://www.sadanduseless.com/abridged-classics-funny/#more-81157
Finding the Other: The radical vision of Toni Morrison https://www.thenation.com/article/toni-morrison-essays-fiction-humanism-book-review/
***POETRY
Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/marriage-betrayal-and-the-letters-behind-the-dolphin
A Book Of Poetry For Everyone https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789036879/a-book-of-poetry-for-everyone
What is Poetry? Part 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/magazine/poem-what-is-poetry-part-2.html
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Every victim’s nightmare: Ransomware attackers are now doxing people who don’t pay up
https://www.fastcompany.com/90444707/every-victims-nightmare-ransomware-attackers-are-now-doxing-people-who-dont-pay-up
***SOCIAL MEDIA
The biggest corporate brands in all of social media https://media.thinknum.com/articles/the-biggest-corporate-brands-in-all-of-social-media/
Taylor Swift is still the most influential person on Twitter in 2019 https://www.cnet.com/news/taylor-swift-is-still-the-most-influential-person-on-twitter-in-2019/
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 29
/***WRITING & READING
The Weirdest Book Titles On Amazon https://www.sadanduseless.com/weird-amazon-books-list/
How do you cope with knowing that the project you poured years of your life into is not quite setting the world on fire? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/25/writing-is-tough-my-book-went-so-unnoticed-i-won-an-award-for-it
The Last Decade Has Been Tumultuous For The Publishing Industry https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782867252/the-last-decade-has-been-tumultuous-for-the-publishing-industry
Prisons Around the U.S. Are Banning and Restricting Access to Books www.openculture.com/2019/11/prisons-around-the-u-s-are-banning-and-restricting-access-to-books.html
Messy handwriting reveals mystery translator: Queen Elizabeth I https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/29/handwriting-identifies-elizabeth-i-tacitus-translation
***JOURNALISM
New York Times dropping most social media trackers https://www.axios.com/new-york-times-social-media-trackers-47f547d5-a241-424a-a398-12344c78ac32.html
Reporting That Hits People Where They Live — by Reporters Who Live There Too https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2019/11/14/new-generation-storytellers-changing-rules-abc
How one woman captured 30 years’ worth of broadcast news https://lwlies.com/articles/recorder-the-marion-stokes-project-director-interview/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
5 Photojournalists Sue Homeland Security for First Amendment Violations https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/5-photojournalists-sue-homeland-security-for-first-amendment-violations.html
Americans favor mobile devices over desktops and laptops for getting news https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/19/americans-favor-mobile-devices-over-desktops-and-laptops-for-getting-news/
An Exhaustive Ranking of Movie Journalists https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/11/25/20974644/movie-journalists-ranked
***JOURNALISM & AI
The relationship of journalism to AI http://bit.ly/35z5F6s
Relevance of AI in Accelerating Journalism and Newsroom Workflow https://www.analyticsinsight.net/relevance-ai-accelerating-journalism-newsroom-workflow/
Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/ai-ethics-journalism-and-computation-ibm-new-york-times.php
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
9 charts about America’s newsrooms https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/26/9-charts-about-americas-newsrooms/
Putting a price tag on local news https://knightfoundation.org/reports/putting-a-price-tag-on-local-news/
AP to add 14 statehouse reporters in collaboration with Report for America https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2019/ap-to-add-14-statehouse-reporters-in-collaboration-with-report-for-america
Portland Has Been Overcharging People for Public Records, Court Finds https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2019/11/19/27502241/portland-has-been-overcharging-people-for-public-records-court-finds
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student reporters at BYU-Idaho allegedly pressured not to publish negative stories https://www.eastidahonews.com/2019/11/student-reporters-at-byu-idaho-allegedly-pressured-not-to-publish-negative-stories/
High school journalists who fought censorship win award https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/11/25/burlington-high-schoolers-censorship-granted-journalism-award/4295236002
Lawsuit pits father against daughter after article alleging sex abuse appears in UNC student newspaper https://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/no-turning-back-in-lawsuit-pitting-father-against-daughter-after/article_f093b659-134f-5fd8-a7ad-6b98c9f9be2f.html
***FAKE NEWS
The neuroscience of how fake news grabs our attention, produces false memories, and appeals to our emotions https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/galaxy-brain-the-neuroscience-of-how-fake-news-grabs-our-attention-produces-false-memories-and-appeals-to-our-emotions/
Fake News Is Costing the World $78 Billion a Year https://cheddar.com/media/exclusive-fake-news-is-costing-the-world-billion-a-year
The Incredibly True Story of Fake Headlines https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredibly-true-story-of-fake-headlines/
Before Trump: the real history of fake news https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/factitious-taradiddle-dictionary-real-history-fake-news
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Here’s What Cancel Culture Looked Like in 1283 (video) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/cancel-culture-victims.html
Facebook still isn’t clear about why it won’t take down false political ads https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/11/18/20970942/facebook-political-ads-policy-carolyn-everson-code-media
‘This app is free and therapy is not’: Gen Z will keep using TikTok even if they don’t trust it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/15/this-app-is-free-therapy-is-not-gen-z-will-keep-using-tiktok-even-if-they-dont-trust-it/
TikTok Denies Censoring A Teen Who Criticized China's Concentration Camps — They Said They Banned Her After A Joke About Osama Bin Laden Thirst https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/teen-tik-tok-china-osama-bin-laden
Twitter Said It Will Not Delete The Accounts Of Dead People https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-wont-delete-the-accounts-of-dead-people-for-now
***LANGUAGE
The Loudness Of Vowels Helps The Brain Break Down Speech Into Syl-La-Bles https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/20/780988618/the-loudness-of-vowels-helps-the-brain-break-down-speech-into-syl-la-bles
‘Climate Emergency’ Is the Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-11-20/climate-emergency-is-the-oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year
What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/education/what-happens-when-college-students-discuss-lab-work-in-spanish-philosophy-in-chinese-or-opera-in-italian/2019/11/18/0eef3f7a-0985-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html
***LITERATURE
The 50 best nonfiction books of past 25 years https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/11/50-best-nonfiction-books.html
Author hits back after library removes LGBT picture book from shelves https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/20/author-west-virginia-library-removes-lgbt-book-shelves-daniel-haack-prince-and-knight
George Eliot translation of Spinoza sheds new light on her fiction https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/22/george-eliot-translation-of-spinoza-sheds-new-light-on-her-fiction
***POETRY
‘My cell is smaller than my size’ – how writing poetry saved a political prisoner (video) https://aeon.co/videos/my-cell-is-smaller-than-my-size-how-writing-poetry-saved-a-political-prisoner
Finding poetry in the letters of Vincent van Gogh https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/finding-poetry-in-the-letters-of-vincent-van-gogh-1.4090884
Typewriter poet pounds out poems in 20 minutes https://www.ktre.com/2019/11/22/webxtra-typewriter-poet-pounds-out-poems-minutes/
In the Woods of Greenwich, a Studio for Writing Poetry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/style/in-the-woods-of-greenwich-a-studio-for-writing-poetry.html
Don’t Let Your Children Become Insufferable Poets https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/opinion/future-humanities-science-education.html
Gay Poet's Book Canceled Over Sexy Instagram Pictures https://www.out.com/books/2019/11/15/gay-poets-book-cancelled-over-sexy-instagram-pictures
Who’s More Qualified to Write About Death Than a Funeral Director Poet? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/books/review/the-depositions-thomas-lynch.html
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Key takeaways on Americans’ views about privacy, surveillance and data-sharing https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/15/key-takeaways-on-americans-views-about-privacy-surveillance-and-data-sharing/
Suspect can’t be compelled to reveal “64-character” password, court rules https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/police-cant-force-child-porn-suspect-to-reveal-his-password-court-rules/
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to Make Your Podcast Sound Like NPR https://lifehacker.com/how-to-make-your-podcast-sound-like-npr-1840048544
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Nov 16
/***WRITING & READING
Singular ‘They’ Pronoun Endorsed by American Psychological Association https://www.out.com/health/2019/11/05/singular-they-pronoun-endorsed-american-psychological-association
Hey, young adult authors: writing for teenagers is no excuse to act like them https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/15/young-adult-ya-authors-sarah-dessen-brooke-nelson
***JOURNALISM
Why journalists need to think twice about reporting on arrests https://www.cjr.org/analysis/out-of-omaha-arrest-reporting.php
Proposed Lafayette County resolution threatens to prosecute media outlets that do not print news releases verbatim https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2019/11/08/county-threatens-prosecute-media-who-dont-print-full-news-releases/2533143001/
Judge dismisses Arpaio lawsuit against CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2019/10/31/judge-dismisses-joe-arpaio-lawsuit-against-cnn-huffpost-rolling-stone/4115742002/
A game of society': Why a group of Italian journalists turned Instagram into a board game https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/-a-game-of-society-why-italian-journalists-turned-instagram-into-a-board-game/s2/a746637/
Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/api-updates/ask-audiences-what-questions-they-have-about-your-reporting
University of Illinois Is Stifling NPR Reporting on Sexual Misconduct, Critics Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/business/media/npr-university-of-illinois-aclu-sexual-misconduct.html
In Data Journalism, Tech Matters Less Than the People https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/technology/personaltech/data-journalism-economics.html
How the New York Times gets Los Angeles hilariously wrong: The bingo game https://la.curbed.com/2015/2/19/9991026/new-york-times-los-angeles-bingo
I Am Extremely Here for (Journalism) Paperwork Movie Season https://gen.medium.com/i-am-extremely-here-for-paperwork-movie-season-252e8cba5b16
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/11/04/historic-shift-salt-lake/
Hundreds of local newspapers are now under one umbrella company following Gannett/GateHouse merger https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/media/gannett-gatehouse-merger-approved/index.html
Everyone is admitting what they get paid to work in journalism https://www.cjr.org/cjr_outbox/google-doc-journalism-media-pay.php
***FAKE NEWS
These Hugely Popular Local News Sites In The US And Canada Are Fake https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/fake-local-news-sites-albany-edmonton
AI-generated fake content could unleash a virtual arms race http://bit.ly/2pkpAXk
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Daily Northwestern Apologizes to Students for Reporting News That Triggered Them https://reason.com/2019/11/11/daily-northwestern-jeff-sessions-editorial-triggered-students/
News or ‘Trauma Porn’? Student Journalists Face Blowback on Campus https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/13/us/college-campus-journalists-newspapers.html
The 800 papers stolen from the Radford University campus - and the school's failure to say who took them https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-case-of-the-missing-radford-university-newspapers-is-cracked-but-whodunit-isnt-being-shared/2019/11/11/104359b4-0495-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Screen time might be physically changing kids’ brains https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614672/screen-time-might-be-physically-changing-kids-brains/
Who are the U.S. users of Instagram? www.city-data.com/blog/7177-who-are-the-u-s-users-of-instagram/
Measure for Measure: ‘Like’ it or not, influencer marketing is changin https://www.nielsen.com/uk/en/insights/article/2019/measure-for-measure-like-it-or-not-influencer-marketing-is-changing/
Sex Education on TikTok https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-education-is-so-bad-these-teens-are-doing-it-on-tiktok
Tech companies target your sanity https://www.axios.com/turning-point-online-mental-health-bc1d5fd1-c637-43e1-b4b1-e7cb02d674cb.html
***LANGUAGE
Students create Japanese language-learning game geared toward gamers https://dailybruin.com/2019/11/05/students-create-japanese-language-learning-game-geared-toward-gamers/
How Linguists Are Using Urban Dictionary https://daily.jstor.org/how-linguists-are-using-urban-dictionary/
***LITERATURE
The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-slowness-of-literature-and-the-shadow-of-knowledge
Cult of the Literary Sad Woman https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/books/review/leslie-jamison-sylvia-plath-joan-didion-jean-rhys.html
Despite the Twerking and F-Bombs, Dickinson Gets Emily Dickinson Right https://slate.com/culture/2019/11/dickinson-apple-tv-accuracy-poetry.html
25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/18/style/essential-modern-love-essays.html
***POETRY
'Dickinson' flips everything you learned about female poets upside down https://www.mic.com/p/dickinson-flips-everything-you-learned-about-female-poets-upside-down-19300957
'Emergency Poet' at world's first walk-in poetry pharmacy prescribes caring words https://www.homecare.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1617224/emergency-poet-at-worlds-first-walk-in-poetry-pharmacy-prescribes-caring-words
An Evening of Poetry in Nine Languages https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2019/11/an-evening-of-poetry-in-nine-languages.html
Best Canadian Poetry 2019 https://quillandquire.com/review/best-canadian-poetry-2019/
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The Boomers' media behemoth https://www.axios.com/aarp-is-a-media-behemoth-412b5106-f879-477d-806d-6130148956bf.html
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Privacy And DNA Tests https://www.npr.org/2019/11/09/777888000/privacy-and-dna-tests
DHS expects to have biometrics on 260 million people by 2022 https://qz.com/1744400/dhs-expected-to-have-biometrics-on-260-million-people-by-2022/
Facebook caught actively using iPhone cameras while users scroll feeds https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/
Google, Ascension analyzing data without patients' knowledge https://www.axios.com/google-ascension-data-sharing-fd6c67eb-73f4-41e1-b4a0-3c4db858b076.html
Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/12/court-rules-against-warrantless-searches-of-phones-laptops
Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/google-medical-data-project-nightingale-secret-transfer-us-health-information
Facebook is secretly using your iPhone’s camera as you scroll your feed https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/11/12/facebook-camera-ios-iphone/
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Oct 9
/***WRITING & READING
Hundreds of thousands of people read novels on Instagram
https://www.fastcompany.com/90392917/the-next-big-reading-platform-may-be-instagram
The 100 best books of the 21st century
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century
How Scientists Were Able To Design A Font Proven To Actually Make You Read Faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIm8arSogvY
Who doesn’t read books in America?
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/26/who-doesnt-read-books-in-america/
Translation Plagiarism in Philosophy
www.dailynous.com/2019/10/01/translation-plagiarism-philosophy/
***GRAMMAR
‘Grammarians’ a captivating novel about word-obsessed twins
***JOURNALISM
7 key takeaways on information disorder from #Online News Association 19
https://firstdraftnews.org/7-key-takeaways-on-information-disorder-from-ona19/
We’ve tracked newspaper layoffs, buyouts, and closures by state over the last few years
https://savejournalism.org/2019/09/26/the-grim-reaper-of-journalism-big-tech
Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News
U.S. Border Agent Harasses Journalist at U.S. Customs—Again
https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-border-agent-harasses-journalist-at-us-customsagain?via=rss
Charlottesville man sues newspaper for reporting on family’s slave-owning past
Press groups urge SCOTUS to provide live audio of oral arguments in six upcoming cases
https://www.rcfp.org/scotus-live-audio-letter/
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
This company opens up the black box of what print newspaper subscribers are actually reading
The Books and Movies That Made Us Better Journalists
https://www.propublica.org/article/ask-propublica-illinois-recommended-journalism-books-movies
Starbucks Offers Customers Free Digital Access To Newspapers, Special Subscription Offers
Supermarkets are ditching their newspaper and magazine racks (and publishers aren’t happy)
More U.S. journalists are being named as collaboration managers; here’s a peek at their job descriptions
***STUDENT MEDIA
After 110 years in print, University of Maryland student newspaper will become online only
https://dbknews.com/2019/09/30/diamondback-ending-print-edition-online-only-digital-media/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
People Are Typing on Their Smartphones Almost as Fast as on Keyboards Now
TikTok’s Ban on Political Ads
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/tiktok-explains-its-ban-on-political-advertising/
China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/technology/china-propaganda-patriotism.html
***LANGUAGE
USC student wants ASL to fulfill foreign language requirement
Language Evolves and that’s okay (O.K.?)
The polarisation of politics has led to a new lexicon of insults
African languages are fastest growing in the United States
https://qz.com/africa/1723269/african-languages-are-fastest-growing-in-the-united-states/
What Language Am I Speaking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgWPWEs63DA
***LITERATURE
She was shot dead by the Nazis in 1942. Her secret diary is to be published after 70 years in a bank vault
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/12/europe/polish-anne-frank-published-intl-scli/index.html
Understanding the importance of language among Latinx consumers
MacTrump’ turns Donald Trump’s first two years as president into a Shakespearean satire
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
New York Magazine to Merge With Vox Media
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/new-york-magazine-merge-vox-media-1243163
One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/25/one-in-five-americans-now-listen-to-audiobooks/
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Wedding Photographer Compares Photos Taken With A DSLR To The iPhone 11 Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=315&v=-2OqqrtKS-E
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Sept 25
/***JOURNALISM
FBI arrests Army soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb major American news network
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi-arrests-army-soldier-allegedly-discussed-plans-bomb/story
Remembering Cokie Roberts, Who Forged A Path For Female Journalists
Growing hostility’ between student media and administrators – Investigative Reporting Workshop
https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/growing-hostility-between-student-media-and-administrators/
Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow
Someone Is Doxing Hong Kong Protesters And Journalists — And China Wants Them To Keep Going
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/hong-kong-doxing-protesters-china-encourage
***FAKE NEWS
Google has released a giant database of deepfakes to help fight deepfakes
https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614426/google-has-released-a-giant-database-of-deepfakes-to-help-fight-deepfakes/
Anti-vax movement targets Maine law on vaccine exemptions
https://www.axios.com/anti-vaccine-movement-targets-maine-ffdffe55-adaf-4aa4-b700-6e61f3b6117e.html
***GRAMMAR
Pope Francis criticises overuse of adjectives
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/24/pope-francis-criticises-overuse-of-adjectives
A grammar nerd gently dismantles those arguments for rejecting the new ‘they’
Does Influencer Grammar Matter?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/style/influencer-grammar-watchdog-accounts-southeast-asia.html
***WRITING & READING
Physical books still outsell e-books — and here's why
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/19/physical-books-still-outsell-e-books-and-heres-why.html
1,000-page sentence is hard work all around
It's Banned Books Week. Here are the 11 most challenged books last year
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/22/us/banned-books-week-2019-trnd/index.html
***LANGUAGE
Why Your Mom Uses Emojis All Wrong 🙃
https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/09/gretchen-mcculloch-because-internet/
Study shows facial features track with intonation of words
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-facial-features-track-intonation-words.html
***LITERATURE
When Milton met Shakespeare: poet's notes on Bard appear to have been found
***POETRY
A vending machine that pops out poems! Positively precious
One of Elizabeth Warren's strategists is longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry
Teaching poetry at a correctional facility through the lens of parenting a teen son
Poem: Small Kindnesses
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/magazine/poem-small-kindnesses.html
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Broadcast Radio Under Threat from Perfect Storm of New Tech
FCC loses in court, judges say agency would fail “intro statistics class”
***SOCIAL MEDIA: TIKTOK
How TikTok Holds Our Attention
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/30/how-tiktok-holds-our-attention
Revealed: how TikTok censors videos that do not please Beijing
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
https://medium.com/@mattprd/how-tiktok-is-changing-the-world-and-youre-missing-it-fa283338649a
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
People Are Looking At Your LinkedIn Profile. They Might Be Chinese Spies
Brain Privacy
Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 18
/***JOURNALISM
Who pays for local news in the U.S.?
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/12/who-pays-for-local-news-in-the-u-s/
Online news in the U.S.: Key facts
A Diversity Bully at the Society of Professional Journalists Convention (opinion)
https://journoterrorist.com/2019/09/16/diversity-bully/
CNN Beats Journalist's Copyright Suit Over Gilda Radner Documentary https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/cnn-beats-journalists-copyright-suit-gilda-radner-documentary-1240286
***JOURNALISM & GOOGLE
Google Says a Change in Its Algorithm Will Highlight ‘Original Reporting’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/business/media/google-algorithm-original-reporting.html
New Google rules aim to boost original reporting in search results
***STUDENT MEDIA
Here’s why writing on a college paper is so much harder than you think
http://cuchimes.com/09/2019/college-paper-struggles/
We Must Save Independent Student Newsrooms
First-year on importance of college newspaper, journalism
www.the-college-reporter.com/2019/09/16/first-year-on-importance-of-college-newspaper-journalism/
***FAKE NEWS
I create fake videos. Here’s why people believe even the obvious ones
A Historical Look At Vaccine Skepticism
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/09/13/a-historical-look-at-vaccine-skepticism/
Online Dating in a World of Deepfakes
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/online-dating-in-a-world-of-deepfakes/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
TikTok's Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge US Audience
The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media
A new class of apps can use machine intelligence to determine if your text conversations are imbued with hidden romantic sparks
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-apps-texting-flirting-romance/
I Faked My Way as an Instagram Poet, and It Went Bizarrely
Well https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/zmjmj3/instagram-poetry-become-successful-scam
I Was Caroline Calloway: Seven years after I met the infamous Instagram star, I’m ready to tell my side of the story
https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-story-of-caroline-calloway-and-her-ghostwriter-natalie.html
How To Be Authentic About Faking Your Instagram Photos
***WRITING & READING
13 Glaring Grammar Mistakes in the U.S. Constitution
https://www.rd.com/culture/mistakes-in-constitution/
The Best Apps to Conquer Your 'Read Later' List
https://lifehacker.com/the-best-tools-for-conquering-your-massive-read-later-l-1838097178
***LANGUAGE
New Words That You Should Add To Your Vocabulary
https://www.sadanduseless.com/exceptional-words-dictionary/#more-77418
The Life Changing Linguistics of… Nigerian Scam Emails
https://daily.jstor.org/the-life-changing-linguistics-of-nigerian-scam-emails/
Merriam Webster adds more than 530 new words and phrases to its dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/new-words-in-the-dictionary
***LITERATURE
How Latinx Literature Gave Me A Sense Of Place
https://www.bustle.com/p/how-latinx-literature-gave-me-a-sense-of-place-18737659
Literature spawns professor's love for science
How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel - The New York
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/books/review/lampedusa-steven-price.html
Articles of Interest about Lit, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 10
/***SOCIAL MEDIA
The phone numbers of 419 million Facebook accounts have been leaked
Facebook Dating has launched in the United States
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/5/20850307/facebook-dating-united-states-launch
Is TikTok a time bomb?
https://www.fastcompany.com/90395898/is-tiktok-a-time-bomb
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Local newspapers are suffering, but they’re still (by far) the most significant journalism producers in their communities
ThinkProgress, the Progressive News Site, Shuts Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/business/media/thinkprogress-closing.html
One America News Sues Rachel Maddow, NBC Over "Russian Propaganda" Claim
How an MSNBC Producer Gets Dressed for Work
https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/in-her-shoes-interview-daniela-pierre-bravo.html
***JOURNALISM
EIJ convention’s brand-new Code of Conduct (opinion)
https://journoterrorist.com/2019/09/03/conduct/
News Anchor Files $10M Lawsuit After Sexualized Image of Her Was Used in Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads
Why NPR uses the word Queer
https://www.imediaethics.org/why-npr-uses-the-word-queer/
A School for Scandal Is a Haven for Student Journalists
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Texas Monthly names first ever taco editor
https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190910/texas-monthly-names-first-ever-taco-editor
Guide to Native Advertising
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/native-ads.php
NBC local TV group will no longer use ratings to sell ads
***WRITING & READING
For Many Authors, Celebrity Book Clubs Are A Ticket To Success NPR
Everything About Banned Books In The US
https://www.dailyinfographic.com/us-banned-books
***LANGUAGE
A Rare Universal Pattern in Human Languages
Historic Recordings Revitalize Language For Passamaquoddy Tribal Members
How do we Measure Language Fluency?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190903-linguistic-fluency-proficiency-second-language-learning
Emojis Have Unsettled Grammar Rules
About one-in-five U.S. adults know someone who goes by a gender-neutral pronoun
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/05/gender-neutral-pronouns/
Why Learn Latin?: 5 Videos Make a Compelling Case That the “Dead Language” Is an “Eternal Language”
www.openculture.com/2019/09/why-learn-latin.html
***ENGLISH
The Easiest Languages for English Speakers to Learn
https://www.afar.com/magazine/the-easiest-languages-to-learn-for-english-speakers
Rise up, rebel, revolt: how the English language betrays class and power
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/06/language-of-division-english-fractured-society
***LITERATURE
Where are all the women in early modern English literature?
30 great opening lines in literature
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/30-great-opening-lines-literature/
***POETRY
Former US poet laureate Rita Dove wins $100,000 prize
http://www.startribune.com/former-us-poet-laureate-rita-dove-wins-100-000-prize/559458562/
Poetic Underground: Group therapy through poetry
https://info.umkc.edu/unews/poetic-underground-group-therapy-through-poetry/
Martín Espada, Poet for the People
https://www.wortfm.org/martin-espada-poet-for-the-people/
A murderer wrote poetry for biker magazines. It could be key to solving a 47-year-old cold case
***FILM
Overlooked No More: Alice Guy Blaché, the World’s First Female Filmmaker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/obituaries/alice-guy-blache-overlooked.html
***INTERNET
Why survey estimates of the number of Americans online don’t always agree
Articles of Interest about Lit, Journalism, Writing & Languages - Sept 3
/***GRAMMAR
Trump’s Twitter War on Spelling New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/us/politics/trump-twitter.html
AP Stylebook Changes Hyphen Guidance, Ushering In Total Chaos The Big Lead
https://thebiglead.com/2019/08/28/ap-stylebook-hyphen-change-guidance
In Love With Language, but Not Necessarily With Each Other New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/books/review/the-grammarians-cathleen-schine.html
***WRITING & READING
What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong Chronicle of Higher Ed
https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Critics-of-Student/247054
How I’m using AI to write my next novel Vox
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/30/20840194/ai-art-fiction-writing-language-gpt-2
Cracking the code of dyslexia CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cracking-the-code-of-dyslexia/
***JOURNALISM
How Colombia’s Datasketch wants to make data visualization easier for Latin American newsrooms
At Least 11 Journalists Killed This Year In Mexico NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/756200213/at-least-11-journalists-killed-this-year-in-mexico
You might make a good producer if... RTDNA
https://rtdna.org/article/you_might_make_a_good_producer_if
Why Teens Are Creating Their Own News Outlets Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-creating-own-news-outlets-instagram-text-message
The New York Times use of FOIAs New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/reader-center/foia-freedom-of-information-public-records.html
***JOURNALISM STUDENTS
Hey, future journalists: 50 pieces of advice for making your college years count RTDNA https://rtdna.org/article/hey_future_journalists_50_pieces_of_advice_for_making_your_college_years_count
Ability to adapt has become more important than ever for journalism interns Community Newspapers https://communitynewspapers.com/featured/ability-to-adapt-has-become-more-important-than-ever-for-journalism-interns /
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Obituaries keep local newspapers afloat
https://www.axios.com/obituaries-local-newspapers-77ddfa04-b54e-46ee-9fb7-a2aa641559fb.html
***FAKE NEWS
These “Canadian” Websites And Facebook Pages Are Actually Run From Overseas
Frank Abagnale of Catch Me If You Can on how not to get scammed Vox
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/8/29/20836745/frank-abagnale-scam-me-if-you-can
Inside the deeply weird fake seed scams that are all over Amazon Mashable
https://mashable.com/article/fake-seed-scam-amazon-ebay/
Hijacked Reviews on Amazon Can Trick Shoppers Consumer Reports
These deepfakes of Bill Hader are absolutely terrifying CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/these-deepfakes-of-bill-hader-are-absolutely-terrifying/
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit Reuters
Here’s how to filter and delete your old tweets — and why that’s an OK thing to do Poynter
What drives our addiction to social media The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling
***LANGUAGE
A new book spells out the magic of language Economist
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/08/22/a-new-book-spells-out-the-magic-of-language
What’s the best way to teach children a second language? New research produces surprising results The Conversation
***LITERATURE
Artificial Intelligence doing Wonders in the Field of Literature Analytics Insight
https://www.analyticsinsight.net/artificial-intelligence-doing-wonders-in-the-field-of-literature/
Emojis Are Language Too: A Linguist Says Internet-Speak Isn’t Such a Bad Thing New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/books/review/because-internet-gretchen-mcculloch.html
7 Best Places for Literature Lovers in Paris Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/7-best-places-literature-lovers-paris-1456124
***POETRY
Waffle House has an official poet laureate: For real Atlanta Magazine
In the first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ Dickinson, the famous poet gets turnt The Verge
This Indianapolis nurse quit her job to become a poet. Now people hire her to write poems Indy Star
Do You Actually Know The Difference Between Taylor Swift And History's Greatest Poets? BuzzFeed
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/taylor-swift-lyrics-famous-poets-quiz
Butchering poetry: Verse vs. worse Washington Post