articles of interest - week of Oct 23
/***JOURNALISM
Is your journalism valuable? Poynter
The Guardian’s Mobile Innovation Lab introduced a new type of article for evolving stories Medium
How Fox 32 became the most engaging news publisher on Facebook Digiday
13 things I learned from six years at the Guardian Medium
Pioneering Virtual Reality and New Video Technologies in Journalism New York Times
How to find the useful information hidden on every website Poynter
Five ways to take advantage of Excel list features Tech Republic
Study: Readers are hungry for news feed transparency Columbia Journalism Review
Russian Radio Journalist Stabbed In Neck Amid Anti-Media Violence Huff Post
Czech President holds up replica Ak-47 marked ‘for journalists’ in press conference The Independent
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires New Yorker
Social media crackdowns at the Times and Journal will backfire Columbia Journalism Review
Journalism’s Broken Business Model Won’t Be Solved by Billionaires The New Yorker
***TEACHING JOURNALISM
How Educators Can Discuss Journalists’ Coverage of Violence PBS Media Shift
***FAKE NEWS
Why I Love Fake News (opinion) Politico
Tightening Political Ad Disclosure Rules May Not Curb 'Fake News,' IAB Says Media Post
At New York event, Facebook stays tight-lipped on fake news Poynter
What do ordinary people think fake news is? Poor journalism and political propaganda Columbia Journalism Review
Facebook's new media guidelines are focused on stopping fake news Engadget
Schools fight spread of 'fake news' through news literacy lessons Educational Dive
How to avoid being part of the fake news problem when big stories break Mashable
University of Haifa to offer course on 'fake news' and propaganda Jerusalem Post
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
At BuzzFeed, a Pivot to Movies and Television New York Times
Young subscribers flock to old media Politico
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Openness to new Experiences Linked with Creativity Becoming
Brain Training Can Improve Memory, But Won't Make You A Genius NPR
***GRAMMAR
Who gives a !@#$ about an Oxford comma (opinion) Daily Cal
***LANGUAGE
Appalachian English Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Day A Texas School Held A Funeral For The Spanish Language NPR
***LITERATURE
Getting Students Excited About Literature Chronicle of Higher Ed
***GENDER
The Sexism That Permeates the Academy (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Maria Anna Mozart Was a Musical Prodigy Like Her Brother Wolfgang, So Why Did She Get Erased from History? Open Culture
Don’t Sanctify Us Chronicle of Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
92 Percent Of African Americans Say Black Americans Face Discrimination Today NPR
Study finds high school teachers have differing expectations of black and white students Inside Higher Ed
Poll: Most Americans Say They Are Discriminated Against, Regardless Of Race NPR
***FREE SPEECH
Does Disruption Violate Free Speech? (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Federal Judge Unseals New York Crime Lab’s Software for Analyzing DNA Evidence Propublica
Hollywood Confronts a Copyright Argument With Potential for Mass Disruption Who really owns the CG characters in blockbuster films Hollywood Reporter
California judge tosses $417 million talc cancer verdict against Johnson & Johnson Reuters
The Supreme Court Justices Need Fact-Checkers New York Times
***TECHNOLOGY
CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs NPR
The Fervor Around Blockchains Explained in Two Minutes Wired
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
The Big Data policing revolution has arrived as predictive technologies analyze the future risk Tech Crunch
With commercial satellite imagery, computer learns to quickly find missile sites in China Space News
The 1st demonstration of the ability of quantum machines to outperform classical computers could be just months way MIT Technology Review
Intelligence leaders caution that AI cannot and should not replace the role of the human analyst Fed Tech Magazine
The hardware needs of AI and the hardware needs of traditional software development are diverging in a big way Electronic Engineering Journal
Machine learning demo with your webcam and GIFs Flowing Data
***SOCIAL MEDIA
What Does Facebook Consider Hate Speech? Take Our Quiz New York Times
Social Media Is Scholarship Chronicle of Higher Ed
Facebook splitting news feed could force companies to re-think social media marketing Tech Republic
Facebook's video could finally catch up to YouTube Mashable
Twitter will reveal who's paying for its political ads LA Times
Why the Fact-Checking at Facebook Needs to Be Checked New York Times
How Russians Attempted To Use Instagram To Influence Native Americans BuzzFeed
Snapchat Reportedly Has Piles of Unsold Spectacles Laying Around Daily Dot
The viral story of Taiwan Jones, who learned he failed his midterms on Twitter, doesn’t add up Washington Post
Facebook Tests News Feed that Replaces Publishers with Friends Daily Dot
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Adobe's New Video Editing Tool Looks Incredible (And A Bit Unsettling) Digg
How to edit 360 photos in Photoshop Digital Trends
#SceneStitch: Adobe MAX 2017 (Sneak Peeks) Adobe
60 Second Docs: Freelancers are Opening Windows to the World Video Strategist
***RELIGION
California Gov. Brown vetoes bill prohibiting faith-based codes of conduct Highland News
White Evangelicals Used to Dominate Christian Zionism, but Not Anymore The Atlantic
Why is a popular interfaith website giving a disgraced misogynistic pastor a platform? (opinion) Washington Post
A misleading article claims millennials are ditching religion for witchcraft and astrology Get Religion
“Almost Like Praying”: The Religious Work of “Hamilton” Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Religion Dispatches
A new organization will score churches’ on their positions on homosexuality Religious News
Was the Reformation a mistake? A Catholic and a Protestant debate Religion News Service
500 Years Since 95 Theses, Martin Luther's Legacy Divides Some Of His Descendants NPR
Religious tourism center in Mission Valley approved by San Diego City Council Fox-5
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Calif. Megachurch Pastor Blurred Church-State Lines by Featuring Candidate During Service Modesto Bee
Why I am ditching the label ‘evangelical’ in the Trump era Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
A New Book Gives Us the World as Seen by Black Female Photographers Vogue
2,000+ Architecture & Art Books You Can Read Free at the Internet Archive Open Culture
The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces Medium
***MUSIC
Hallelujah!: You Can Stream Every Leonard Cohen Album in a 22-Hour Chronological Playlist (1967-2016) Open Culture
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Study finds patterns of harassment and sexist treatment of scholars in far-flung locations that offer few of the protections of campuses Inside Higher Ed
Before media firestorms, decades of assaults Axios
Ed Dept. Vigil for victims of sexual assault on campus and in protest changes to federal Title IX Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIOLOGY
Why Some Professions Have Higher Divorce Rates Life Hacker
***HEALTH
Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Review
Video on how drug companies make you pay for wasted medicine Tiny Letter
Anger Over Stereotypes in Textbook Inside Higher Ed
***BUSINESS
This calculator that shows you how long it takes the Kardashians to earn your annual salary Missy Empire
***SCIENCE
Cambridge Site Crashes After Posting Stephen Hawking's Thesis NPR
***PHILOSOPHY
***RESEARCH
New web services are helping authors make data-driven decisions when choosing which journal to submit to The London School of Economics & Political Science
It is time to restore Rules for Authorship of scientific publications Wiley Online Library
The Facebooking of Scholarly Research Scholarly Kitchen
About that peer-review crisis: There isn’t one, at least in terms of quantity, according to a new study of article submissions Inside Higher Ed
Researchers may be part of the problem in predatory publishing CMAJ News
When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy New York Times
***HIGHER ED
MIT Introduces Digital Diplomas Inside Higher Ed
Improving Federal Accountability for Higher Education American Progress
Western accrediting agency picks unconventional new leader Inside Higher Ed
George Fox University lands national accreditation for Master of Social Work program George Fox
Analysis: Liberty U a rare haven for conservative speakers Campus Reform
***TEACHING
***STUDENT LIFE
Tips on how to visit a college campus The Philadelphia Tribune
A Christian College Student’s Playlist Study Breaks
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
Journalism internships with November deadlines Student Press Law Center
***STUDENT MEDIA
A student newspaper retracts an article for made-up quotes The Rotunda Online
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Transcripts reveal prof’s tough tenure fight with WSU Detroit News
Professors’ Productivity Declines With Age, Right? Maybe Not Chronicle of Higher Ed