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

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/11/key-findings-about-the-online-news-landscape-in-america/

 

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

https://www.axios.com/google-news-algorithm-original-reporting-search-results-publishers-7a0314ed-1132-4535-a158-eac1aa8f008d.html

 

***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

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2019/09/11/colleges-should-support-independent-perspective-student-newspapers-offer-opinion

 

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

https://www.fastcompany.com/90404007/i-create-fake-videos-heres-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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/

 

The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/sep/16/the-machine-always-wins-what-drives-our-addiction-to-social-media-podcast

 

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/ 

 

***INSTAGRAM

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 

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/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 

https://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/story/news/local/2019/09/16/dooley-found-literature-spawns-love-science/2055457001/

 

How a Dying Man Wrote a Timeless Novel - The New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/books/review/lampedusa-steven-price.html