Articles of interest about journalism, scams, writing & more - Feb 25
/***COIVD-19
Studies Examine Variant Surging in California, and the News Isn’t Good
CDC says there’s one thing you shouldn’t do within 2 weeks of your coronavirus vaccine
Clergy On The Pandemic Front Lines: 'How Do We Really Grieve?'
What Could Happen If You Miss Your Second Covid-19 Vaccine Dose?
***JOURNALISM
A rule for good journalism: What is missing from this story?
Texas journalists are providing critical information about a disaster they’re living through
With the Loss of Physical Newsrooms, How are Young Journalists Faring?
One America News clashes again with White House correspondents over Trump-approved camera tent ($)
Trying a Des Moines Register reporter arrested while covering a protest violates free press rights (opinion)
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Pandemic drives nonprofit media boom
Al Jazeera to launch rightwing media platform targeting US conservatives
Judge rejects Rep. Nunes' defamation lawsuit against CNN
Sale Of Tribune Publishing To Alden Global Capital Raises Concerns In Newsrooms
The news media bargaining code could backfire if small media outlets aren’t protected: an economist explains
***FREE SPEECH
DOJ Settles First Amendment Suit Over White House Press Access
***WRITING: MICROSOFT WORD
Microsoft Word getting killer upgrade to battle Google Docs
This new Microsoft Word feature is bound to be a hit, especially with slow typists
***WRITING & READING
AI can write a passing college paper in 20 minutes
Slow Down and Write Better Emails
What does a manuscript rejection really mean? (probably not what you think)
Library staffer fired after being accused of burning Trump, Coulter books
The rise of Black science fiction and fantasy
***FAKES & FRAUDS
Science Is Truth Until It Isn’t
People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Nearly 30,000 Macs reportedly infected with mysterious malware
The viral Mars Perseverance rover video going around is fake
The Disinformation Vaccine: Is There a Cure for Conspiracy Theories?
Scientists said claims about China creating the coronavirus were misleading
***SCAMS
Scam alert: Caller tells viewer she must pay to watch TV newscast
Online scammers are rushing to exploit people desperate to get the Covid-19 vaccine
7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam ($)
***FAKE NEWS
Dominion's MyPillow and Smartmatic's Fox News election suits put 'disinformation' on trial
Fake News? How to spot a deep fake
How memes became a major vehicle for misinformation
***QANON
Pizzagate’s violent legacy ($)
Life amid the ruins of QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’ ($)
***SOCIAL MEDIA
From Clubhouse to Discord to Twitter, The Future of Social Media Is All Talk
Facebook says it will pay news industry $1 billion over 3 years
Facebook Hashtag Purge Fails To Stop Covid-19 Conspiracy Theories Spreading
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on 'wrong data' per court filing
Facebook’s underground obituary pages
***SECURITY
France to boost cyberdefense after hospital malware attacks
Owner of app that hijacked millions of Android devices with one update exposes buy-to-infect scam
Microsoft: SolarWinds attack took more than 1,000 engineers to create
Ransomware gangs are running riot – paying them off doesn't help
How to stop robocalls: Every way we know to prevent the annoying ringing
***PRIVACY
You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t.
Tracker pixels in emails are now an ‘endemic’ privacy concern
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Audio takes off during the pandemic
***LANGUAGE
The Made-Up Language That Accidentally Became Real: The Story of Klingon
***POETRY
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
Poems by 10 Contemporary Black Poets
An experimental program enrolled students from high-poverty high schools in a Harvard poetry course, and the students excelled
Thanks to Undocupoets, poets don’t need papers to be heard