articles of interest - June 12
/***JOURNALISM
The 10 secrets to great journalism hidden away in ‘Master of None’ Poynter
Think your journalism job is hard? Try making a podcast from prison Poynter
Google launches news literacy program Axios
Will your FOIA request succeed? This new machine will tell you Poynter
A new model for high-impact investigative reporting Columbia Journalism Review
After charges of sexism, New York Times changes headline on Katy Tur profile Poynter
Conservatives Despise Fact-checking Industry Washington Post
Without a public editor, The New York Times’ new Reader Center aims to connect with its audience Poynter
***JOURNALISM & LEAKS
Did 'Intercept' Out Its Intelligence Source? NPR
Ethical journalism: what to do - and not to do - with leaked emails The Conversation
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Growth in mobile news use driven by older adults Pew Research
***FAKE NEWS
Reuters’ new survey suggests that readers are getting (a bit) smarter about verifying breaking news Harvard’s Nieman Lab
In a Fake Fact Era, Schools Teach the ABCs of News Literacy Wired
A Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorist, a False Tweet and a Runaway Story New York Times
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Algorithms might make life fairer if they are well designed-but how can we know whether they are so designed? MIT’s Technology Review
Artificial intelligence will put spies out of work, too Chicago Tribune
Experts predict when artificial intelligence will exceed human performance MIT’s Technology Review
What’s driving big data into the cloud, and what are the benefits? Inside Big Data
Machine learning comes to Google Sheets, boosting data visualization for users Tech Republic
NGA, NRO, NSA joining DoD In Silicon Valley Breaking Defense
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Live adds closed captioning for deaf and hard of hearing USA Today
Discourse Theory as Explained by Memes Medium
Skype gets Snapchat treatment Makeover Mashable
***PRODUCING MEDIA
The Lowdown on Livestreaming Platforms Video Strategist
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Somewhere between boredom and anxiety Becoming (my blog)
***GRAMMAR
The A.V. Club copyedited “Predisent” Trump’s lawyer, and the results were not good AV Club
A Word, Please: To stay a while or awhile, that is the question LA Times
Hyphens can be tricky, but they need not drive you crazy The Economist
***WRITING & READING
John Grisham’s Do’s and Don’ts for Writing Popular Fiction New York Times
How to Write Like James Comey Life Hacker
American Writers Museum is just a dead writers’ society Chicago Reader
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover—Judge It by Its First Page Life Hacker
***LANGUAGE
The Science of Thingummyjigs (and Other Words on the Tip of Your Tongue) Jstor
Discourse Theory as Explained by Memes Medium
***LITERATURE
In Nobel speech, Bob Dylan reminds us reading can be fun Charlotte Observer
Allen Ginsberg’s Howl Manuscripts Now Digitized & Put Online, Revealing the Beat Poet’s Creative Process Open Culture
Stop calling Amazon's new thing with books a 'bookstore' Mashable
***GENDER
Advocates Warn that cuts to the office of Civil Right Would Further Slow Resolution of Backlogged Title IX Cases Inside Higher Ed
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Interracial Marriages Face Pushback 50 Years After Loving NPR
When the patient is racist, how should the doctor respond? (opinion) Stat News
***FREE SPEECH
The New Censorship on Campus (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Trump’s Twitter Blocking May Violate First Amendment Wired
Is there a First Amendment right to follow President Trump’s Twitter account? The Conversation
Two-day auction planned for campus assets of Nazarene Bible College The Gazeette
***LEGAL ISSUES
Three Significant ways the Emoji revolution will impact the Law SSRN
How your ugly booking photos (and Tiger’s) became a commodity for cops, hustlers and journalists The Marshall Project
***TECHNOLOGY
Civilian Drones The Economist
Helping blind people navigate: A new way to assist those with poor eyesight The Economist
***RELIGION
'The Shack' Director Defends Portraying God as Black Woman, Says Bible Was Written Allegorically Christian Post
Christians faced widespread harassment in 2015, but mostly in Christian-majority countries Pew Research
Is It Hateful To Believe In Hell? Bernie Sanders' Questions Prompt Backlash NPR
Trump to evangelicals: We're 'under siege,' will be stronger Associated Press
The party registration of religious leaders New York Times
Southern Baptists Embrace Gender-Inclusive Language in the Bible The Atlantic
How Billy Graham Mainstreamed Evangelicals The Daily Beast
Fired gay music director loses lawsuit against church, archdiocese Daily Herald
***MUSIC
Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature
***FILM
How Hollywood Came to Fear and Loathe Rotten Tomatoes Vanity Fair
How Filmmakers Captured a Daring Escape From ISIS Territory National Geographic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Snapchat's Growth Dips As Competitive Pressures Mount Media Post
You can now buy Snapchat video ads straight from the company’s website Recode
Trending Down: Newspaper, Mag Revenues Slip Again Media Post
The Illusion of Measuring What Customers Want – Jobs to be Done JTBD.into
***SCIENCE
It’s time for universities to crack down on fake science publishers and the academics who use them, legal experts say Ottawa Citizen
Why we can't trust academic journals to tell the scientific truth The Guardian
Quantum mechanics, relativity theory and the nature of time: Time may be fuzzy. If so, the idea of causality may be in trouble The Economist
***HEALTH
The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain Vox
A single paragraph published nearly 40 years ago contributed to the opioid epidemic. What can we learn from this? Health News Review
***PSYCHOLOGY
Jane Brody promoting the pseudoscience of Barbara Fredrickson in the New York Times PLOS
The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now Wired
Beauty sleep is a real thing, research shows BBC
Remembering the Murder You Didn’t Commit The New Yorker
***PHILOSOPHY
The 18th century Comes Alive in Harvard's 'Philosophy Chamber' Boston Globe
***CRITICAL THINKING
Facts Alone Won’t Convince People To Vaccinate Their Kids FiveThirtyEight
***ETHICS
When is a leak ethical? The Conversation
***HIGHER ED
Our college students are changing. Why aren’t our higher education policies? (opinion) Washington Post
University of Michigan campus gun ban upheld by Court of Appeals Michigan Live
Private college tuition is rising faster than inflation .... again USA Today
Jerry Falwell Jr. says he will be part of a Trump education initiative Politico
Baylor provost Jones resigns after one year in the role Waco Tribune
***TEACHING
Engaging Students Through Tests Chronicle of Higher Ed
Student asks court to force poetry professor to give her an A Stevens Point Journal
New study: Students at most risk may be those least well served by online education Inside Higher Ed
How to Use Facebook’s CrowdTangle in the Classroom PBS Media Shift
Facebook Testing Features that Lets Users Teach online Courses Inside Higher Ed
***RESEARCH
Do ResearchGate Scores create ghost academic reputations? Springer
A new tool “checks that the data sets underlying published studies are made freely available” Nature
Reverse Engineering JCR’s Self-Citation and Citation Stacking Thresholds Scholarly Kitchen
***STUDENT MEDIA
Inside Odyssey: The Decline of a College Media Empire Fortune
You Don’t Have to Major in Computer Science to Do It as a Career MIT Tech Review
***STUDENT LIFE
Inside the Meme Thread, a Growing Forum for College Students Nationwide Chronicle of Higher Ed
We should thank millennials for ruining these terrible products New York Post
Getting to Know.. Millennials Bloomberg
For Students Going Overseas, an ‘America First’ Presidency Complicates Their Studies Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Portrait of Faculty Mental Health Inside Higher Ed
Prof: a violation of academic freedom to cancel a course that includes material on his university’s recent fake-classes scandal Chronicle of Higher Ed
American University of Beirut Prof (with two U.S. graduate degrees) is refused U.S. admission to present at a San Diego conference Inside Higher Ed
Coming to terms with mental health and academic failures New York Times
Rutgers Philosophy Prof Accused of Raping a Disabled Man gets Conviction Overturned Inside Higher Ed