Articles of Interest about Literature, Journalism, Writing & Languages – Oct 26
/***WRITING & READING
Machine learning beats humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests—but in doing so reveals how AI has to go
"Everybody Is Freaking Out": Freelance Writers Scramble to Make Sense of New California Law
***JOURNALISM
Donald Trump Letter to CNN Promises Legal Action for "Highly Biased" News
How Reporters Figured Out The Identities Of The Men Who Vandalized The Emmett Till Memorial
Five tips for journalism students from ONA President Mandy Jenkins
https://journalism.uoregon.edu/news/five-tips-journalism-students-ona-president-mandy-jenkins
The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
One-in-five U.S. newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C.
First Draft launches nationwide project to help prepare US newsrooms for online threats ahead of 2020 election
SmartNews is paying publishers to be on its platform
https://digiday.com/media/theres-clarity-around-youll-make-smartnews-paying-publishers-platform/
Five takeaways from a new study of local digital news publishers
https://www.rjionline.org/stories/five-takeaways-from-a-new-study-of-local-digital-news-publishers
***FACEBOOK “NEWS”
Watch Mark Zuckerberg duck a question about including Breitbart in Facebook's News tab
https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-breitbart-news-tab/
Facebook will pay some publishers for ‘News’ tab items
***STUDENT MEDIA
When the Student Newspaper Is the Only Daily Paper in Town
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/news-desert-ann-arbor-michigan.html
Student Newspaper Adviser Punished for Critical Coverage
Harvard Crimson, university's student newspaper, defends contacting ICE for comment
Chapman University president right to apologize for censoring student newspaper
https://www.thefire.org/chapman-president-right-to-apologize-for-censoring-student-newspaper/
***FAKE NEWS
Trademarking "fake news"
How fake news conquered the world
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/10/24/20908223/trump-russia-fake-news-propaganda-peter-pomerantsev
To Predict the Role of Fake News in 2020, Look to Canada
https://daily.jstor.org/to-predict-the-role-of-fake-news-in-2020-look-to-canada/
Fake News Trivia Quiz
https://factcheckingday.com/articles/35/want-more-fake-news-trivia-take-our-2019-fact-checking-quiz
My Journalism Organization Is Trying to Trademark "Fake News" to Stop Donald Trump From Using It
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trademark-fake-news-stop-donald-trump-from-using-it
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Senators Call for TikTok Investigation Over Chinese Espionage Concerns
The power of social media influencers is shrinking
https://www.axios.com/social-media-influencer-marketing-1b7875c5-89f9-4fe1-938e-060ca4c8fb3c.html
***LITERATURE
Dublin Wants to Reclaim James Joyce’s Body Before the Centenary of ‘Ulysses’
The US Release Of Naomi Wolf’s ‘Outrages’ Just Got Canceled Months After An Awkward Interview Revealed An Error In The Book
https://digg.com/2019/naomi-wolf-realizes-thesis-is-wrong
In Venezuela, Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables' Resonates With Caracas Residents
Found: A Long Lost Chapter from the World’s Oldest Novel, the 11th-Century Japanese Classic, The Tale of Genji
www.openculture.com/2019/10/found-a-long-lost-chapter-from-the-worlds-oldest-novel.html
Flannery O’Connor knows you can't handle the truth
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/flannery-oconnor-knows-you-cant-handle-the-truth
***POETRY
Why poetry matters
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/10/why-poetry-matters
5 Reasons Why You Should Habitually Read Poetry in College https://studybreaks.com/culture/reads/reasons-to-read-poetry/
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
You Got a Brain Scan at the Hospital. Someday a Computer May Use It to Identify You.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/health/brain-scans-personal-identity.html
Research participants' privacy threat
***INTERNET
The FTC fosters fake reviews, its own commissioners say
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-ftc-fosters-fake-reviews-its-own-commissioners-say/
Google Is Making A Big Change To The Way It Serves Search Results
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/google-search-bert-natural-language-processing