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A well worn drawer of type sits with a wide range of individual type setting pieces sitting on it.

Anadrome, semordnilap and levidrome: a whimsical example of problematic information

By Sherwin Arnott February 4, 2018May 30, 2019

How a heartwarming news story about an interesting linguistic phenomenon widely mislead people that there are no words to describe that spell different words when they’re reversed…

Panels of illustrations from the Great Moon Hoax of 1835.

More nuanced theories of journalism needed

By Sherwin Arnott August 10, 2017February 28, 2021

A good theory of journalism helps us understand what media are not journalistic. And, equally important, a theory helps us understand what unconventional kinds of media are journalistic…

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