Articles of Interest - Dec. 25 — Goforth Solutions, LLC

***JOURNALISM 2017

***THE JOURNALISM FILM “THE POST”

'The Post': Pentagon Papers Put The Press Under Pressure NPR

Steven Spielberg's The Post Is the Journalism Movie We Need Today TIME

Fact checking ‘The Post’: The incredible Pentagon Papers drama Spielberg left out Washington Post

Steven Spielberg’s The Post makes an entertaining, timely case for the First Amendment Vox

***FAKE NEWS

Facebook admits its original attempt to end fake news failed Daily Dot

How blockchain technology could prevent fake news from spreading Tech Republic

***TECHNOLOGY

Ready Player One and the Troubled Future of VR Technews World

Meet the robot that passed a college class on philosophy and love CNBC

***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA

How talk radio stays relevant in the digital age Tech Republic

Tempers flare at FCC over record Sinclair fine CNN

Is Radio Headed For a Digital Cliff? Musicomics

A U.S. Station Switched From Bluegrass to Radio Sputnik—and Got Threats From the Feds Bloomberg

The Return of Vinyl Records Daily Infographic

***JOURNALISM

'Journalism is evolving and so is my thinking on it' Poynter

Mexican journalist shot dead at primary school holiday party Associated Press

The rich tried to save alt-weeklies: They haven't helped Mashable

Russian hackers hunted journalists in years-long campaign Associated Press

Journalism branding: Impact on reporters’ personal identities Journalism Resources

***BIG DATA & AI

Some expect AR to deliver flashy, exciting cultural creations.. but it may be more mundane—and thus more powerful Wired

AI Predictions have a patchy record. So what to make of these? Truck drivers will be obsolete within a decade or so, retail workers have about 15 years left, and machines will be writing best-selling books within three decades The World In

Six areas where artificial neural networks prove they can surpass human intelligence Venture Beat

Will Artificial Intelligence Become Conscious? Live Science

A look at what happened at machine learning’s big event Economist

8 game-changing data trends that will impact businesses in 2018 Tech Republic

***SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages Tech Crunch

The Best of Reddit in 2017The top posts, communities, AMAs, and other highlights from the past year Reddit

CNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut Tech Crunch

***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK

Facebook uses age-targeted job advertisements, but is that discriminatory? Daily Dot

Facebook drops 'disputed' tags for news stories The Hill

Facebook ‘Messenger Kids’ lets under-13s chat with whom parents approve Tech Crunch

Who’s Watching Facebook TV? Bloomberg

***PRODUCING MEDIA

The World's Best Film School Is Free on YouTube Wired

There will be an explosion of streaming-video services in 2018. A shakeout is inevitable The World In

The 50 Best Podcasts of 2017 The Atlantic

***INTERNET

You Give Up a Lot of Privacy Just Opening Emails. Here's How to Stop It Wired

Google's Year in Search Google Trends

***PERSONAL GROWTH

Missing the Miracle in the Mundane Becoming (my blog)

***LANGUAGE

Whatever! Marist Poll reveals list of most annoying words Poughkeepsie Journal

Tongue tried: Can the internet breathe new life into a dying language? Jonathan Beckman learns a smattering of Ainu 1843

The importance of pauses in conversation Economist

Vulnerable Words and the CDC Chronicle of Higher Ed

The strange reinvention of Icelandic: A language both ancient and modern Economist

Merriam-Webster's Word Of The Year Is Feminism NPR

***LITERATURE

The Best Books Atlantic Staffers Read in 2017 The Atlantic

Longreads Best of 2017: Essays Long Reads

Why Juan Rulfo’s fiction of fear is still revered in Latin America: The arbitrary violence of his short stories rings true in modern Mexico Economist

Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace Long Reads

Books of the Year 2017 Economist

J.R.R. Tolkien Is Our Favorite Father Christmas: For 23 years he role-played in holiday letters to his children Atlas Obscura

Apparently, people who steal books from indie bookstores have pretentious taste: And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects Vox

***GENDER

Gender Gap in Academic Seminar Questions: Men are far more likely to ask, study finds Inside Higher Ed

The battle to make French a “gender-neutral language” is emphasizing the country’s inherent sexism Quartz

Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities The Atlantic

Jezebel's Annual, Unscientific List of Best Women, According to Us Jezebel

Women and economics: The profession’s problem with women could be a problem with economics itself Economist

Sinclair Broadcast Group Sued for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Hollywood Reporter

***FREE SPEECH

Report: Campus speech codes decline for 10th straight year The Fire

College Students Clash Repeatedly Over Free Speech Issues NPR

***RELIGION

Santa Claus Converts To Calvinism, Moves Everybody To Naughty List Babyonbee

Will the Museum of the Bible become a star DC attraction for tour groups? Washington Post

Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of church sex abuse scandal, dead at 86 CNN

Texas Rangers pitcher and wife donate mansion and 100 acres of land to a Christian charity that provides camps for children with special needs and chronic illnesses ESPN

John Legend cast as Jesus Christ in upcoming NBC live musical CNN

Christianity Today’s 2018 Book Awards Christianity Today

Calif. Megachurch Accused of Practicing Occult in Use of 'Destiny Cards' Christian Post

***RELIGION AND POLITICS

Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore? (opinion) The New Yorker

Sam Bee: Trump’s devout evangelical following is “an Aryan death cult” (opinion) Salon

***ART & DESIGN

A Strict Olympic Crackdown on Russian Logos and Typography New York Times

California artist weaves faith into acclaimed works, show Religion News Service

***IMAGES

The Most 2017 Photos Ever The Atlantic

Ye Olde Photoshoppe: The manipulation of photographs goes back a surprisingly long way 1843

***MUSIC & AUDIO

Feel the noise: Tech companies are working out how to re-create the immediacy of live performance in your own home 1843

Bob Dylan's Gospel Period Sidemen Share Memories of His Most Divisive Era Billboard

How bands display their history on the stage Economist

***FILM

The Next Bechdel Test: We pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance FiveThirtyEight

Cult Hit 'The Room' Set for Wide Theatrical Release (Exclusive) Hollywood Reporter

Film remakes that should stay on the storyboard Economist

Every Steven Spielberg Movie, Ranked Vulture

Not even “The Last Jedi” will reverse Americans’ retreat from cinemas Economist

***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT

This year has seen an explosion of rage about sexual harassment: Will it lead to lasting change? Economist

At Vice, Cutting-Edge Media and Allegations of Old-School Sexual Harassment The New York Times

***RELATIONSHIPS

The Weaponization of Awkwardness Don't make a scene. Look the other way. Social discomfort has long been used to maintain the status quo The Atlantic

The rise of long-distance marriage: Financial necessity is encouraging more couples to live apart Economist

***HEALTH

U.S. life expectancy declines for a second straight year and it’s fueled by the drug crisis Washington Post

Silencing is golden: A new era of medicine will come into view The World In

***SCIENCE

The High School Student's Simple Explanation Of Relativity Will Boggle Your Mind Digg

An age of discovery is in prospect for biology, predicts neuroscience professor at MIT and co-inventor of CRISPR Economist

Why Is M-Theory the Leading Candidate for Theory of Everything? Quantam Magazine

***PSYCHOLOGY

Tasks for My Psychological Task Rabbit McSweeneys

Can you really be addicted to sex? 1843

The holiday-suicide myth and the intractability of popular falsehoods The Conversation

***PHILOSOPHY

10 Schools of Philosophy and Why You Should Know Them Big Think

Slippery Slope (video)

***RESEARCH

Politics Moves Fast. Peer Review Moves Slow. What’s A Political Scientist To Do? FiveThirtyEight

Want to Win a Nobel Prize? Retract a Paper: This advice is both hyperbolic and not nearly as crazy as it sounds Slate

Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research Physics Today

How Badly Can Cherry-Picking and Question Trolling Produce Bias in Published Results? Springer

***RESEARCH & GENDER

Women are held to a higher standard in peer review VOX

Female grant applicants are equally successful when peer reviewers assess the science, but not when they assess the scientist Biorxiv

***HIGHER ED

Legal Pot? Doesn’t Matter, Colleges Say Inside Higher Ed

Higher Ed New Media Consortium Suddenly Ceases Operations Campus Technology

How much did hacker who taunted Rutgers cost the school? NewJersey.com

What Colleges Need to Know About the Tax Overhaul Poised to Become Law Chronicle of Higher Ed

A Nonprofit Funneling thousands of dollars to student-government campaigns across the country The New Yorker

***TEACHING

Don’t cede the online-education terrain to people whose courses are nowhere nearly as good as your own Chronicle of Higher Ed

Authors of statistics textbook proudly declared, in a footnote, that no one reads footnotes. Photos of the footnote keep going viral Inside Higher Ed

Use of Free Textbooks Is Rising, but Barriers Remain Chronicle of Higher Ed

Controversial question spotted on UCCS final exam KOAA

A Brief History of Students Secretly Recording Their Professors Chronicle of Higher Ed

***STUDENT LIFE

E-sports come of age: Why the e-sports industry will boom The World In

Dreamers’ Make Desperate Plea on Capitol Hill Chronicle of Higher Ed

***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Want to freelance? Join SPJ's freelancer directory Society of Professional Journalists

Now Accepting Student Applications for intensive 10-day program designed for college students interested in covering government and politics Politico

Internship Photo Department Patagonia, Ventura, California

2018 Summer Producer Intern National Football League Culver City, California

***ACADEMIC LIFE

On Faculty and Mental Illness Chronicle of Higher Ed

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