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A Year of InSites: Twitter Is Ushering In an Era of Micro-News

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A couple of weeks ago, I took a day trip to New York City using one of those low-cost bus services. As the day wound down, I tried to check the bus company’s website for my departure time, but it wouldn’t load. I immediately searched the company name and “NYC” on my smart phone [...]

Correct Word Choice and Phrasing Important for Competent Health Storytelling

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From coverage of Cornell University’s response to six students’ deaths by suicide to reports of entertainer Marie Osmond’s teenage son’s death by suicide, recently reporters are writing and talking a lot about suicide.

While it’s great that news coverage is driving public dialogue about this often taboo topic, the news coverage does not utilize linguistically [...]