Articles of Interest - Feb 4
/***JOURNALISM
The Newseum was a grand tribute to the power of journalism: Here’s how it failed The Washington Post
Immigrant rights attorneys and journalists denied entry into Mexico Los Angeles Times
The Six Forms of Media Bias New York Times
News story lifespan charts FlowingData
Asked To Ignore Racism: 4 Reporters Tell Their Stories Huffington Post
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Loss of newspapers contributes to political polarization Associated Press
How R&D works at the BBC & The New York Times Global Editors Network
***FAKE NEWS
NSA confirms everything is a conspiracy, conspiracy theorists not convinced The Science Post
Fake news sites are simply changing their domain name to get around Facebook fact-checkers Mashable
Snopes says nope to Facebook’s money and leaves fact-checking program The Verge
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook TechCrunch
A shockingly large majority of health news shared on Facebook is fake or misleading Fact Company
The Deep Roots of Fake News: A new history of the United States traces mass media’s destabilizing effects back to the nation’s birth Scientific American
How analyzing patterns helps students spot deceptive media The Conversation
Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes New York Times
Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers Harvard’s Nieman Lab
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Flickr will start deleting your photos soon Daily Dot
The real problem with posting about your kids online (opinion) The Conversation
Facebook has been paying teens $20 a month for total access to their phone activity The Verge
Does Facebook Really Know How Many Fake Accounts It Has? New York Times
Facebook's plan: One messaging service to rule them all Axios
Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die The Atlantic
10 facts about Americans and Facebook Pew Research Center
Meet the Creator of the Egg That Broke Instagram New York Times
Instagram to blur self-harm images after Molly Russell's suicide BongBonG
***MOBILE
Americans got 26.3B robocalls 2018; many don't answer the phone Twin Cities
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of American mercenaries Reuters
A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you The Next Web
News outlets' email security gap Axios
***INTERNET
Study shows we're spending an insane amount of time online The Next Web
It’s time to ditch Google Analytics Fact Company
Digital trends 2019: Every single stat you need to know about the internet The Next Web
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Saying no to 1000 things Becoming (my blog)
What old story about yourself are you still believing? Here’s how to find it and change It TED ideas
The Dunning-Kruger effect, and how to fight it, explained by psychologist David Dunning Vox
***GRAMMAR
Ariana Grande’s new tattoo has a hilarious misspelling Mashable
Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer New York Times
***WRITING & READING
How to write effectively for international journals Nature
Should plagiarism be a bar to presidency? (sub req’ed) Times Higher Ed
The changing ways Americans read books Axios
Three Writing Rules to Disregard The Paris Review
***LANGUAGE
What happens in our brain when we learn languages? Science Focus
Evolution of the alphabet FlowingData
***LITERATURE
Book Written by Detainee via WhatsApp Gets a Top Prize New York Times
3 Award-Winning Latina Authors Are Symbols Of Hope For Next Generation Of Writers NPR
A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions The New Yorker
***GENDER
Women act more like men when they have to ask women for money Quartz
New Study: Largest U.S. Churches Are Unclear on Women's Leadership Sojourners
Nevada Reaches Major Milestone As First State With Majority Of Women In Legislature NPR
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
James Watson and the insidiousness of scientific racism Wired
Football and the NFL Are Facing White Flight The Atlantic
Magazine censored, editor dropped for covering Henry Ford’s anti-semitic newspaper Columbia Journalism Review
***FREE SPEECH
Mobs target journalists and Turkey hands jail sentences to 28 academics IFEX
Eddie Money's Decision to Fire Drummer Was Expression of Free Speech, Court Rules Hollywood Reporter
Federal Judge Bizarre claim: Boycotts Aren't Protected Speech TechDirt
***LEGAL ISSUES
A look at how unfair the courts can be for those who can't afford fairness New York Times
Michael Jackson & R. Kelly Documentaries Tough to Stop Due to First Amendment Billboard
How O.G. Streetwear Brand FUCT Took a Free Speech Case All the Way to the Supreme Court GQ
Fiji Water's Golden Globes Photobomber Sues Company Over Cardboard Cutouts Hollywood Reporter
The large-scale and potentially extremely illegal social media marketing efforts for the Fyre Fest The Fashion Law Blog
***CRIME
10 Visualizations About Criminal Justice Global Investigative Journalism Network
***TECHNOLOGY
Researchers demonstrate flexible, inexpensive materials that can convert ambient Wi-Fi signals into electricity MIT Tech Review
***BIG DATA & AI
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next: the era of deep learning is coming to an end MIT Tech Review
***RELIGION
Are religious people happier, healthier? Our new global study explores this question Pew Research Center
How A Long-Lost Guitar Was A Lesson In Grace And Forgiveness NPR
World Vision ousted from Pakistan The Alabama Baptist
SoCal Megachurch pastor Commits Suicide Christian Post
Interfaith panel reflects on the state of faith-based higher education Deseret News
Avril Lavigne crosses over to Christian music with latest Top 5 single Aleteia
Religion makes Americans give Philanthropy
HarperCollins Christian Publishing found guilty of fraud, breach of contract Nashville Post
Students at Sundance see Film Through the eyes of faith Religious News
***GOOD NEWS
Man saves woman's life by giving her CPR — a skill he picked up from watching The Office Tucson.com
Good Samaritans rescue woman and infant son after SUV crashes into pond WMBF-TV
***ART & DESIGN
The women running for president are breaking the rules of branding Fact Company
A funky dictionary with daily used terms in the digital agencies around the world Fakeit
The National Parks’ iconic typeface has never been digitized–until now Fact Company
***MUSIC
Take this test to figure out how tone-deaf you are The Verge
Get Free Ambient Work Music With Flow State LifeHacker
***FILM
15 Movies We Loved at Sundance Vulture
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
BuzzFeed Paid the Teen Making Its Top Quizzes in Free Swag The Cut
Coming to a TV near you: personalized ads Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
5 simple things Jimmy Breslin did as a reporter and writer that can make student journalists great, too Dynamics of Writing
***STUDENT LIFE
19 Things Your Parents Told You That Turned Out To Be Total BS BuzzFeed
In Growing ‘Wild West’ of Campus Esports, Programs Rush to Lure the Best Players Chronicle of Higher Ed
Are millennials lazy? Studies suggest otherwise King-5
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Yale hires investigator after claims of sexual misconduct against former professor New Haven Register
Michigan State Faulted For Handling Of Sexual Abuse Cases NPR
Priest Responds To Child Sex Abuse Accusations Within Church NPR
***SOCIAL ISSUES
These Maps Reveal the Secret World of Modern Slavery How Much
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
America Needs More Young Workers to Support Aging Population Bloomberg
A worldwide, winner-takes-all race to rule tech Axios
Visualizing how prices have changed over the past 20 years How Much
Student loan debt crushes senior citizens Axios
***ENVIRONMENT
The natural products that could replace plastic BBC
Climate change is altering the color of the oceans Quartz
***HEALTH
America’s Epidemic of Vaccine Exemptions New Republic
We have far less control over our weight than we might wish to think IFL Science
Sleep loss heightens pain sensitivity, dulls brain’s painkilling response Berekley
Cereal companies created a myth about the first meal of the day: Researchers keep debunking it Vox
Extra body fat may be shrinking your brain Fatherly
Teens with anti-vax parents seek out Reddit's help to get secretly vaccinated Salon
***FAMILY
14 Tips for Raising Generous Kids Red Tricycle
***AUTISM
Children with autism may not cave to peer pressure like Non-autistic Children IFL Science
What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device? New York Times
***ANIMALS
Woman runs final 19 miles of marathon while cradling a lost puppy Runner’s World
Iran bans dogs from riding in cars and public walks in Tehran CNN
People Form Human Chain To Rescue Dog From Canal The Dodo
Animal rights group sues UC Davis, demanding videos of alleged abuse of monkeys San Francisco Chronicle
Dad Saves Dog’s Fav Toy Daily Mail
***PSYCHOLOGY
Judge says Tampa conversion therapy ban violates First Amendment free-speech rights Washington Post
Women's Brains Age More Slowly Than Men's NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
The Case for Professors of Stupidity Nautil
How Did Famous Philosophers Promote Racism In America? Houston Public Media
How Accurate Is The Good Place's Philosophy? Marie Claire
Monty Python's Best Philosophy Sketches Open Culture
***PRODUCTIVITY
Multiply time by asking 4 questions about the stuff on your to-do list TED ideas
***HISTORY
After issuing dozens of corrections to high-profile book, historian shuts down his blog Retraction Watch
You Can Now Look At The Faces Of Some Of Britain's Earliest Inhabitants IFL Science
What Popular Histories Often Get Wrong About the Underground Railroad History News Network
***ETHICS
Three Identical Strangers’: The high cost of experimentation without ethics Washington Post
British army permitted shooting of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan Middle East Eye
***RESEARCH
Is Journal Peer-Review Now Just a Game? Milton Packer wonders if the time has come for instant replay MedPage Today
Intellectual Conflicts of Interest Pose Hidden Dangers to Scientific Accuracy OncLive
The journal impact factor: Is it better than coin flipping? Science Direct
Is there a best day for submitting an article for publication? The London School of Economics & Political Science
***HIGHER ED
New efforts on campus focus on ways to capture what students learn outside class -- and how to communicate it to employers Inside Higher Ed
Litigation Is Likely For New Title IX Guidelines NPR
Education by State Wallethub
When Colleges Seek Diversity Through Photoshop Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES
How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences’ Inside Higher Ed
View that liberal arts majors face lower earning potential is a myth Daily Camera
The Decline of Historical Thinking (and the history major) The New Yorker
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Christian College Professor is suspended for using the N-word while discussing a James Baldwin essay Inside Higher Ed
Christian university denies approving ‘F*** Donald Trump’ theme of convocation The College Fix
Pelosi praises evangelicals in address to Christian college presidents Christian Post
Christian university blocks Ben Shapiro from speaking The Hill
Christian School Under Fire for Allowing Blackface During School Presentation Fox 40
***TEACHING
Are You Assigning Too Much Reading? Or Just Too Much Boring Reading? Chronicle of Higher Ed
How One Professor Learned to Stop Worrying and Drop the Deadline Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University bans journalism professor from campus; university alert alleges meth use, access to guns Spokesman
Ex-Dentistry Professor Suing USC, Alleges Firing Linked to Complaint Against Supervisor Changing Grades City News Service
University Will Pay Nearly $700,000 in Settlement With Former Provost after she was accused of plagiarism Chronicle of Higher Ed