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