If you are a teacher reading this, you might also find this useful for the new AQA English Language A level that starts being taught in September 2015, where Paper 2 has a writing task similar to the media text and intervention.
Again, I'd be delighted to add any others if you want to suggest them, either as comments on this blog post or as tweets via @EngLangBlog.
Opinion pieces
English can absorb this assault from texting (Canadian
article)
Isabelle Kerr on silly new words and why they shouldn't be in
the dictionary
John McWhorter on “Is Texting Killing English ?”(short answer: no)
David Marsh on arguments about language and The Pedants' Revolt
Kyle Chayka asks "Is the Innanet RUINING teh English Language??? ¯\(°_o)/¯"
Hannah Jane Parkinson on How We Are Judged On Our Accents
Cumberbatch Needs to be More Careful with Words ('coloured' actors and racist language)
Don't Crucify Cumberbatch (the 'coloured' controversy)
Robert Lane Greene on prejudice against accents
Cumberbatch Needs to be More Careful with Words ('coloured' actors and racist language)
Don't Crucify Cumberbatch (the 'coloured' controversy)
Robert Lane Greene on prejudice against accents
Rebecca Holman on ‘Menglish’ (gender and language)
Girls are way ahead of the linguistic curve (gender and
language innovation)
Britt Peterson on Why We Love the Language Police (grammar and non-standard English)
Ben Zimmer on 'Salty', a "Word with a Promising Future".
Manterruption: the "Secret Plague" for women at work
Ben Zimmer on 'Salty', a "Word with a Promising Future".
Manterruption: the "Secret Plague" for women at work