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/