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/