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    Articles tagged language (8)

    David Markowitz, Hillary Shulman and Todd RogersAugust 26, 2024
    Readers prefer to click on a clear, simple headline — like this one
    “Headlines with more common words — simple words like ‘job’ instead of ‘occupation’ — shorter headlines, and those communicated in a narrative style, with more pronouns compared with prepositions, received more clicks.”
    Sarah ScireJuly 13, 2022
    Lost for words? A new, free resource offers journalists guidance on thorny topics
    “You might be a copy editor looking for a deeper history of a sensitive word; a writer rethinking who your beat is serving; or a manager trying to make a tough call on deadline. The challenge is the same: Language is ever-evolving, and the words we choose to use can have lasting, consequential outcomes.”
    Liana DeMasiMarch 17, 2022
    “Beyond political correctness”: The exclusionary messaging of gendered language in journalism
    “Speaking to and incorporating more diverse experts and sources can address a lot of the disparities that exist in talking about people, but more than that, it can work to achieve a higher healthcare standard for a lot of people.”
    Tarleton GillespieAugust 25, 2017
    Is “platform” the right metaphor for the technology companies that dominate digital media?
    Metaphors don’t just highlight a comparison — they also downplay the aspects they don’t capture. And “platform” papers over some of the big questions social media raises.
    Watch new First Look employee Andy Carvin talk about a cat in a tree (and linguistics and evidentiality)
    NYTimes.com’s most looked-up words for 2011 are…even more morose than last year’s list
    Hubris, feckless, dyspeptic, blasphemy, cronyism, and the other words that confused Times readers most in the first half of 2011. Megan Garber
    July 1, 2011
    The revolution will be translated: Global Voices’ citizen-powered site experiments with English-second
    June 10, 2011
    Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship
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