Articles of Interest - April 22
/***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Inside the weird, and booming, industry of online influence Wired
Money magazine going out of print following failed sales auction CNN
'ESPN The Magazine,' 'National Geographic' Record Top Social Media Engagement Media Post
***JOURNALISM
2019 Pulitzer Prizes Are Announced By Columbia University NPR
Mistakes, we’ve drawn a few Learning from our errors in data visualisation Medium
Is it Okday for Journalist to Block a Critic (not a troll, just a critic) on Twitter Harvard’s Nieman Lab
US slides down global press freedom rankings amid warning of 'climate of fear' for journalists CNN
Quest for food stamp data lands newspaper at Supreme Court Associated Press
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Accuses Media of Anti-Liar Bias The New Yorker
Student journalists were barred from a Betsy DeVos event. So they took her to task in an editorial Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Viral lies spread before Indian and Indonesian elections Axios
YouTube's algorithm mistook the fire at Notre Dame cathedral for the 9/11 attacks in New York City The Verge
Facebook teams with rightwing Daily Caller in factchecking program The Guardian
How 11 People Try to Stop Fake News in the World’s Largest Election Bloomberg ***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Great Mystery Becoming (my blog)
When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition Atlas Obscura
Just do it? Or Stop and Think about it? Aeon
***SOCIAL MEDIA
TikTok sensation Lil Nas X rewrites the rules of country music Axios
Social media in the Middle East Journalism.co
WhatsApp Has Become A Hotbed For Spreading Nazi Propaganda In Germany BuzzFeed News
LinkedIn editor-at-large Jessi Hempel interview on Peter Kafka podcast Recode
Stop Facebook’s targeted advertising by changing your account settings Fox News
Snap's Board Facing Blowback for Not Disclosing Whistle-Blower Lawsuit in IPO Hollywood Reporter
Trump's 2020 plan: Target seniors on Facebook Axios
***MOBILE
Popular Apps In Google's Play Store Are Abusing Permissions And Committing Ad Fraud BuzzFeed News
***GRAMMAR
The Mueller report has two spaces after every sentence Quartz
Can you spot the spelling and grammar mistakes in these tattoos? Inked
***WRITING & READING
Graffiti punished by reading - 'It worked!' says prosecutor BBC
Billy Collins Teaches Poetry in a New Online Course Open Culture
***PLAGIARISM
Tracking Father Rosica's (very) long history of plagiarism National Post
***LITERATURE
Victor Hugo's 'Hunchback Of Notre Dame' Immortalized French Cathedral NPR
Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled? Black America talks back to “The Good Gray Poet” at 200 (opinion) Daily Jstor
"To Kill a Mockingbird": A story for our time CBS News
***GENDER
Agriculture census data shows the US has more female farmers than ever Pacific Standard
Why Female Surfers Are Finally Getting Paid Like Their Male Peers The Atlantic
Why did the suffragettes write one of their fiercest fighters out of their history? Pacific Standard
Women’s faces may hide infidelity better than men’s Newsweek
Council Bluffs students hold walkout over transgender student seeking to use women's bathroom Omaha World Herald
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be ProPublica
Inside a White-Nationalist Cookout Rolling Stone
Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags their foreign ties Science Mag
Teens Behind Racist Graffiti Received An Unusual Sentencing. But Did It Work? NPR
Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity Quartz
Companies Continue To Stumble Over Racially Offensive Advertising Campaigns NPR
A 'hero among heroes,' it's time this WWI soldier be recognized for his valor Washington Post
Ancestry.com Apologizes for Ad Showing Slavery-Era Interracial Couple New York Times
Chapman University Film School Removes 'Birth of a Nation' Posters After Student Protests Hollywood Reporter
***KATE SMITH
Yankees Suspend Use of Kate Smith's 'God Bless America' amid Racism Allegation Bleacher Report
Flyers remove Kate Smith statue outside stadium ESPN
***LEGAL ISSUES
Advocacy Groups Train Lawyers Of All Kinds To Help With Immigration Cases NPR
Meteorologist sues NBC-affiliate, says firing was defamatory iMedia Ethics
Without Using Profanity, Supreme Court Justices Discuss Case Centered On Bad Language NPR
Creative Commons and the Fight for a More Robust Public Domain The Fashion Blog
***TECHNOLOGY
The world's largest airplane is set to launch satellites The Verge
How recommendation algorithms run the world Wired
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
How to build a facial recognition system w/publicly available data for $100 New York Times
The FBI wanted a backdoor to the iphone: Tim Cook said no Wired
Millions of Instagram users had their passwords exposed Quartz
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Podcast Consumer 2019 Edison Research
***INTERNET
How to use Gmail's best new feature for 2019 Cnet
10% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? Pew Research Center
***RELIGION
Bestselling Christian author Rachel Held Evans put in medically Induced Coma Al.com
Gospel for Asia Settles Lawsuit with $37 Million Refund to Donors Christianity Today
Ohio church apologizes after pastor encourages students to spit on him, cut him with knife NBC News
U.S. Church Membership Down Sharply in Past Two Decades Gallup
Chinese Immigrants Are Converting to Catholicism: Local Churches Have Adapted New York Times
'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach The Guardian
A resurrection in faith-based films CBS News
Hitler hated Judaism. But he loathed Christianity, too Washington Post
A woman holding a baby and a gun interrupts San Diego church services with bomb threat CNN
***GOOD NEWS
A Mentor Challenged Bright Math Students And Changed Their Lives NPR
Canadian who had heart attack while jogging in Florida saved by stranger — from his hometown CBC News
Video shows firefighters push man home in wheelchair The Kansas City Star
***REALLY?!
What the Easter bunny does the rest of the year (video)
10-Year-Old Maryland Girl Born Without Hands Wins Handwriting Contest (‘I Just Try My Hardest’) Baltimore
A Woman Got 30 Days In Jail For Running Over Her 9-Year-Old Son After He Refused To Go To School BuzzFeed News
***FONTS
Helvetica, the world's most popular font, gets a face-lift Wired
Why the US Government Just Made Its Own Font, Open Sans MotherBoard
***MUSIC
World Heavy Metal Knitting Championship to launch in Finland Louder Sound
How the Vietnam War Shaped Classic Rock--And How Classic Rock Shaped the War Open Culture
Can Music be Medicine? The Naked Scientists
***SOCIAL ISSUES
Selfie Deaths Are an Epidemic Outside online
The biggest change in US cities isn't gentrification, but poverty concentration CityLab
What an Olympic medalist, homeless in Seattle, wants you to know Seattle Times
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook Wired
***THE BORDER
Rights group condemns U.S. 'vigilante' treatment of migrants on border Reuters
Telling parents to 'just relax' on college admissions perpetuates a broken system LA Times
Inside The San Diego Church Where ICE And Border Patrol Bring Pregnant Women BuzzFeed News
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population The Guardian
Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes ProPublica
Do You Earn Enough to Afford a House in the Largest U.S. Metros? How Much
***ENVIRONMENT
The One Thing Millennials Haven’t Killed Is Houseplants Bloomberg
How people worldwide view climate change Pew Research Center
How Scientists Discovered What Dirty Air Does to Kids’ Health CityLab
How Americans see climate change Pew Research Center
***HEALTH
Wake up, people: You're fooling yourself about sleep, study says CNN
The Truth About Dentistry The Atlantic
Vitamin supplements don't help people live longer, study finds NBC News
Bad diets killing more people globally than tobacco, study finds The Guardian
UCSD eye doctor broke human research rules, putting patients at risk iNewsource
***HEALTH COSTS
High-Deductible Insurance Linked To Delays In Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment NPR
Physicians' salaries have once again hit an all-time high Axios
High-Deductible Insurance Linked To Delays In Cancer Diagnosis And Treatment NPR
***HEALTH RESEARCH
Scientists Plan To Start Human Trials Testing CRISPR Soon NPR
Israeli Researchers Print 3D Heart Using Patient's Own Cells Bloomberg
***VACCINES
Washington state Senate passes vaccine bill in rebuke to anti-vaxxers Washington Post
Funding halted for Professor Chris Exley, who links vaccines to autism The Times
***TRAVEL
Woman Wears 9 Lbs. of Clothing on Plane to Avoid $85 Overweight Baggage Fee People
***SPORTS & GAMES
High school junior does what no MLB player has done before: Hit for home run cycle USA Today
Jeopardy’s Prize Budget vs. James Holzhauer The Atlantic
'Baseball Brit' Hopes To Attend 162 MLB Games This Season NPR
***FOOD
The way we taste food changes as we age Quartz
Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden Bonappetit
Excessive noise is the chief complaint diners have: Here’s an App to Help Vox
***FAMILY
Here's How Wedding Photographers Know If The Couple Will End Up Divorced Buzzfeed News
Family ties are unraveling globally Axios
How Parents Who Travel for Work Can Ease the Burden on Their Families New York Times
***CHILDREN
Mapping Where Traffic Pollution Hurts Children Most CityLab
2019’s Best & Worst States for Children’s Health Care Wallet Hub
How much screen time is too much? Here are the limits 10 tech executives set for their kids NBC News
***ANIMALS
The 20 Most Pet-Friendly Cities in America Mental Floss
The mystery of Julian Assange’s cat: Where will it go? What does it know? Washington Post
Dog Saved By Workers On Oil Rig, 135 Miles Off Thai Coast NPR
***SCIENCE
Synthetic biology could bring a pox on us all Wired
***PSYCHOLOGY
Research Confirms: When Receiving Bad News, We Shoot the Messenger Harvard Business Review
Music therapy for mental health The Naked Scientists
***HISTORY
Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders BBC News
50 Things Turning 50 in 2019 Mental Floss
***RESEARCH
Gun Research Is Suddenly Hot New York Times
Censorship in a China Studies Journal Inside Higher Ed
Stanford clears a professor of any wrongdoing in his interactions with a Chinese researcher who created the first gene-edited babies New York Times
***HIGHER ED
A Yale Law School policy was meant to protect LGBTQ students: Other saw anti-Christian bias Washington Post
UW-Stevens Point Scraps Plans To Drop 6 Majors Wisconsin Public Radio
Telling parents to 'just relax' on college admissions perpetuates a broken system (opinion) LA Times
Some colleges receiving the most GI benefits spend the least on educating veterans, report says Washington Post
The Students Called the TA a ‘Nazi.’ He Said He’s Not a White Supremacist: The University Ruled He Could Return to the Classroom Chronicle of Higher Education
SDSU warns of possible meningitis exposure FOX-5
***ACADEMIC LIFE
The Students Called the TA a ‘Nazi.’ He Said He’s Not a White Supremacist. The University Ruled He Could Return to the Classroom Chronicle of Higher Education
Why this South Carolina teacher quit mid-year: 'The unrealistic demands and all-consuming nature of the profession are not sustainable’ Washington Post
What the Mueller Report Reveals About the Globe-Trotting Professor Who Spoke of ‘Dirt’ on Clinton Chronicle of Higher Education
Professor Says Arizona State Forced Him to Fail Students: The University Says That’s ‘Unequivocally Wrong’ Chronicle of Higher Education
***STUDENT LIFE
This bot will do your homework for $9.95 a month. Does it actually work? Vox
New Uber program aims to boost rider safety on college campuses Cnet
21 Life-Changing Things That Don't Happen To You Until You're 25 BuzzFeed News
Sitins and Walkouts in Schools over Software New York Times