Articles of Interest - Dec 10
/***JOURNALISM
The top 25 news photos of 2018 The Atlantic
Get rid of the content no one reads: Offer surprises and “candy” and other tricks for retaining subscribers Harvard’s Nieman Lab
'Killed for speaking the truth': nine journalists murdered in 2018 The Guardian
From a Myanmar jail, a children’s book about the power of journalism Columbia Journalism Review Columbia Journalism Review
A Capital Gazette photographer had a powerful rebuttal to “enemies of the people” Washington Post
Podcasts Are Getting Newsier. Here Are 8 New Ones Worth a Listen New York Times
Interviewing white-collar criminals: 6 tips from Harvard Business School’s Eugene Soltes Journalism Resources
A Future With Less News: The possibilities and limits of journalism in the digital era New Republic
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Thomson Reuters will cut 3,200 jobs by 2020 CNN
How two traditional competitors are working together to grow audience Better News
How many of us pay for online news? Reuters
At NPR, an army of temps resents a workplace full of anxiety and insecurity Washington Post
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
China study abroad trip proceeds as planned despite journalist arrests Daily Nebraskan
My advice for aspiring explainer journalists Vox
***FAKE NEWS
How Does Misinformation Spread Online? Psychology Today
The War on Truth Spreads Democratically elected leaders borrow from the anti-press playbook of dictators and tyrants (opinion) New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
Your smartphone's AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed MIT Technology Review
New Scam Apps Take Advantage of iPhone Touch ID Wired
***BIG DATA & AI
Plunging into AI? Not a good idea Zdnet
The latest AI-enhanced gadget you're using is probably not actually 'intelligent' Poynter
***SOCIAL MEDIA
LinkedIn Learning Opens Its Platform (Slightly) Ed Surge
The Psychological Toll of Becoming an Instagram Influencer Medium
Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source Pew Research Center
Here’s How Facebook’s Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years BuzzFeed News
Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition New York Times
Facebook must decide: Is it for the mob or for democracy? (opinion) Monday Note
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Best Podcasts of 2018 New Yorker
The 11 best documentaries of 2018 Vox
***INTERNET
Google's Autocomplete Suggestions For Questions About Every State, Mapped Digg
Poll: Smartphones are winning the internet Axios
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Study: after 75 years the most fulfilling lives had one thing in common Becoming (my blog)
***WRITING & READING
The best-selling fiction novels of the last 100 years LitHub
Writing has ‘got to be weird before it gets good,’ says Casey Gerald PBS
Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? New York Times
7 Essential Tools to Improve Your Business Writing Skills The Frisky
***GRAMMAR
Scholars Talk Writing: Hyphens, Oxford Commas, and Pronoun Preferences (sub. req’d) The Chronicle of Higher Education
One in ten British adults don’t know when to use ‘their’, ‘there’ and ‘they’re’ The Sun
Twitter responds to the Smocking Gun incident TIME
***LANGUAGE
How We Ask Questions Matters The Chronicle of Higher Education
George H.W. Bush, Language Guy The Chronicle of Higher Education
***LITERATURE
Should Studying Literature Be Fun? Chronicle of Higher Education
The Bookshelf shares a video homage to literature Quill and Quire
Why the Hell Are We Still Reading Ernest Hemingway? The Daily Beast
***GENDER
The Woman Who Outruns the Men, 200 Miles at a Time New York Times
This journalist created a system to make sure more female experts got on air Poynter
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Campuses are seeing a Surge of Anti-Semitic Incidents Inside Higher Ed
Students at Columbia University interrupted Comedian deeming his jokes too offensive Inside Higher Ed
Veterans Affairs’ diversity chief was told not to condemn white nationalists Washington Post
Nursing while black The Tennessean
***CRIME
Confidential informants are supposed to keep their work confidential. These two didn't USA Today
This map shows where in the US cyber crime costs people the most CNBC
Florida schools cover up crimes: Rapes, guns and more Sun Sentinel
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized Fast Company
***RELIGION
Fundamental Baptist church pastors cover up sex abuse, rape Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Wiccans Outnumber Presbyterians in the US Christian Post
25 Questions about Hanukkah, Answered! Mental Floss
6 things a Texas pastor learned from traveling with a group of migrants CNN
Book charting decline of white Christian America wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion The Presbyterian Outlook
Under pressure, Museum of the Bible moves charismatic Christian conference off-site Religion News Service
Christian Activist who burned LBGTQ books from library charged with misdemeanor Sioux City Journal
Nuns improperly took as much as $500,000 from Torrance Catholic school Press Telegram
ATF: There have been 5 attacks on Jehovah's Witnesses in Washington state this year CNN
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
***GOOD NEWS
9-year-old gets Colorado town to end ban on snowball fights ABC 13
Homeless man turns in $17,000 cash he found outside local food bank The News Tribune
Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free The Guardian
UPS driver takes home shelter dog who hopped into his truck The DoDo
California nurse adopts baby left at his hospital The Week magazine
Nurse overhears conversation: Decides to donate a kidney to a woman she'd never met Chicago Tribune
FIU student defies odds, walks across stage for his diploma Local 10
***ART & DESIGN
Why we all take the same travel photos Wired
Walmart Acquires Art & Décor Retailer Art.com Tech Crunch
The Best Art of 2018 New York Times
***MUSIC
The Best Music Of 2018 (all female) NPR
Spotify’s Most Streamed Artists are all Male Mashable
The 12 Days of Christmas: the story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol Vox
How J.R.R. Tolkien Influenced Classic Rock & Metal (video)
The Strange History of Smooth Jazz: The Music We All Know and Love … to Hate (video)
***FILM
The American Film Institute releases annual list of its Top 10 movies Entertainment Weekly
NPR's Favorite Movies Of 2018 NPR
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Media pivots away from advertising Axios
***ARTICLES ABOUT JOBS
482 hiring managers looked at nearly 20,000 résumés and found the classic advice to limit your résumé to one page might be wrong after all Business Insider
Telemundo Stations Launch ‘University’ to Staff Newsrooms Broadcasting & Cable
How to advocate for yourself in the newsroom The Ground Truth Project
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Ranking the most charitable states in the country Thrillist
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore: It’s harder for Millennials to thrive as entrepreneurs now The Atlantic
How To Recognize The Signs Of A Toxic Work Environment (infographic) Daily Infographic
***ENVIRONMENT
Researchers find plastic particles in every sea turtle tested for study Axios
Carbon emissions rise again in 2018, new report finds Axios
***HEALTH
Giving Patients a Voice in Their Mental Health Care Before They’re Too Ill to Have a Say New York Times
41 Percent of Americans Do Not Intend to Get a Flu Shot this Season National Opinion Research Center
Cushioned shoes aren't good for your feet BigThink
***HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY
1st baby born using uterus transplanted from deceased donor KUTV
***FOOD
Dollar General tries to make healthy food more accessible CNN
***PARENTS
Stay-at-Home Mom says Judge left her feeling bullied: “I don’t care about your children” Sacramento Bee
How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever The Marshall Project
Couple endures emotional crime in bizarre botched adoption Orange County Register
***CHILDREN
First data from massive NIH study shows effects of screen time on kids Axios
Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills Slate
***ANIMALS
Dog waited weeks for owners at home burned in Camp fire Press Democrat
Twitch and Izzy with unusual condition wobble their way into your heart Freep
Police officer rescues chicken from shed fire New York Daily News
Origins Of The Top Dog Names Of 2018: Pop Culture, Brunch, And Baby Names NPR
***PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology’s Replication Crisis Has Made The Field Better FiveThirtyEight
***NEUROSCIENCE
Neuroscientist: we are always hallucinating The Atlantic
How does chemo brain work? One cancer drug might interfere with brain signaling Science Magazine
***PHILOSOPHY
A Russian city is embroiled in protests over Immanuel Kant Quartz
***HISTORY
Plague linked to the mysterious decline of Europe’s first farmers Nature
The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War The Week magazine
***ETHICS
Why Are Scientists So Upset About the First Crispr Babies? New York Times
How to know if you’re an ethical leader Fast Company
***RESEARCH
A look at how four institutions responded to scientific misconduct Science and Public Policy
Tips from seven academics on how to do a good peer review (sub req’d) Times Higher Education
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil now has an entry on reproducibility Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
***HIGHER ED
In Unusual Letter, Democratic Senators Ask ‘U.S. News’ to Change Emphasis of College Rankings Chronicle of Higher Education
Brightwood College announces sudden closure amid accreditation, financial turmoil 10 News
Moody’s Gives Higher Ed a Negative Outlook, Again Chronicle of Higher Education
Actually, Academe Never Was All That Great (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Education
Small private colleges are shrinking and struggling The Texas Monitor
50 Colleges Hit With ADA Lawsuits Inside Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Disgraced Ole Miss coach expected to be next Liberty U head coach College Football Talk
Northwestern College vice president chosen to lead Christian Canadian university Northwestern College
Ex-Wheaton College student pleads guilty to theft for stealing classmates' technology Daily Herald
Four fires under investigation at Wheaton College Boston Globe
Northwest Christian University athlete arrested on suspicion of rape Register-Guard
Azusa Pacific Trustees Resign, Citing Objections Inside Higher Ed
***LIBERAL ARTS
One Way to Set Up Liberal-Arts Majors for Success: Focus on Skills The Chronicle of Higher Education
What a Liberal Arts College Is and What You Should Know US News
Humanities and STEM as Overlapping Circles Inside Higher Ed
Lies About the Humanities — and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (sub. req’d) Chronicle of Higher Education
***TEACHING
How College Faculty Can Beat the Cheat Ed Surge
How One University Uses ‘Sneaky Learning’ to Help Students Develop Good Study Habits Chronicle of Higher Education
A Teacher Was Fired For Refusing To Use A Transgender Student’s Preferred Pronoun BuzzFeed News
Another Study Debunks the idea of Learning Styles eLearning Inisde
***STUDENT MEDIA
The Student Press Law Center issues a Censorship Alert over an Arkansas Student Newspaper Student Press Law Center
Media adviser in Alabama being ousted after students post story upsetting provost Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT LIFE
Millennials experience work-disrupting anxiety at twice the US average rate Quartz
Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials The Atlantic
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Writing and Teaching With a Terminal Illness Chronicle of Higher Education
The Expensive Superficiality of M.F.A Programs: They exist to train aspiring artists in how to sound sophisticated — not how to create art Chronicle of Higher Education
American higher education has always had some profoundly serious flaws, so let’s stop pining for an idealized past and work on a better future Chronicle of Higher Education
Are numbers of doctorates awarded finally starting to reflect the poor academic job market? Inside Higher Ed