articles of interest - June 26
/***JOURNALISM
Q&A: Ira Glass on structuring stories, asking hard questions Columbia Journalism Review
Using Texts as Lures, Government Spyware Targets Mexican Journalists and Their Families New York Times
Nobody Speak: Trials of a Free Press (a new documentary now on Netflix) KPCC radio KPCC
Welcome to the Wikipedia of the Alt-Right Wired
Can Journalists Live Without Twitter? New Republic
Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2017 Digital News Report
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Jeff Bezos has a lot of advice for the newspaper industry Fast Company
I almost let my journalism job destroy my marriage. Don’t make the same mistake Poynter
The state of paying for news Digiday
***FAKE NEWS
The fake Vox staffers who posted macabre things on the internet, explained Slate
How An Obviously Fake Story About A Couple Who Never Eat Went Viral Digg
The agenda-setting power of fake news: A big data analysis of the online media landscape from 2014 to 2016 Boston University Researchers
Fake news of a fatal car crash wiped out $4 billion in ethereum’s market value yesterday Quartz
How to spot fake news (and teach kids to be media-savvy) Salon
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Vimeo says it’s not going to launch a video subscription service, after all Recode
How Editors Can Prepare to Livestream Breaking News Video Strategist
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Podcast Ad Revenues Expected to Top $220 Million in 2017, Climbing 85% from Previous Year, According to IAB Interactive Advertising Bureau
***SOCIAL MEDIA
My Company Tried Slack For Two Years. This Is Why We Quit Fast Company
YouTube has 1.5 billion logged-in monthly users watching a ton of mobile video Tech Crunch
Facebook video ad viewability rates are as low as 20 percent, agencies say Digiday
Using social media appears to diversify your news diet, not narrow it Harvard's Nieman Lab
1 in 5 Smartphone Owners Worldwide Use Their Device Every 5 Minutes Interactive Advertising Bureau
***TECHNOLOGY
Google Drive will soon back up your entire computer The Verge
***BIG DATA & STATISTICS
Warren Buffett's disarmingly simple investment strategy, explained by big data MarketWatch
Research: Move your #bigdata to the cloud now or you won't be able to keep up with customers Information Week
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Is Talent Overrated? Becoming (my blog)
Here's An Awkward Question: Why Are Some People Awkward? Digg
***GRAMMAR
Apostrophes That Make You Go Hmmm Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Amazon is planning to rival Google with a service that translates languages CNBC
Cantonese isn’t dead yet, so stop writing its eulogy Quartz
***LITERATURE
Academics Alarmed about TSA Plans Requiring Books be Removed Carry Luggage Inside Higher Ed
***GENDER
The health care sector had the largest gap between vacancies and hires of any sector but Men don’t Want to Be Nurses (opinion) New York Times
Title IX investigation closed at Liberty University Associated Press
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
How stereotypes in TV shows and movies may affect your child's development ABC News
A Writer On Being A Black Man In Minnesota NPR
Racist Snapchat story targeting Sikh man on flight sparks outrage on social media The Independent
***FREE SPEECH
Who's Afraid of Free Speech? What critics of campus protest get wrong about the state of public discourse (opinion) The Atlantic
4 Highlights From a U.S. Senate Hearing on Campus Free Speech Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LEGAL ISSUES
Republican Coal King Sues HBO Over John Oliver’s Show ("Any core of merit is buried in nonsense”) The Daily Beast
Supreme Court Sets Higher Bar For Revoking U.S. Citizenship NPR
Why Racially Offensive Trademarks Are Now Legally Protected The New Yorker
Ban on Sex Offenders Using Social Media Violates First Amendment–Packingham v. North Carolina Technology and Marketing Law Blog
Creators of Tupac biopic 'All Eyez on Me' sued by music journalist for infringement LA Times
ll-Advised Copyright Lawsuit Over Facebook Live Video Becomes Costly For Plaintiff–Konangataa v. ABC Technology and Marketing Law Blog
***RELIGION
No major US religious groups approve refusing service to gays Religious News Service
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Focus on the Family’s 40th anniversary celebration Denver Post
The preacher lived a life of luxury. But the feds just indicted him on tax fraud Charlotte Observer
How CrossFit Acts Like a Religion The Atlantic
2,000-Year-Old Manuscript of the Ten Commandments Gets Digitized: See/Download “Nash Papyrus” in High Resolution Open Culture
Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The Mind of God’ New York Times
How A YouTuber's Cult Following Became An Actual Cult Cracked
***RELIGION AND THE COURTS
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding Cake to Gay Couple Associated Press
What a SCOTUS decision over a church playground means for religious freedom in America Vox
Supreme Court Weakens Wall Between Church and State (opinion) Bloomberg
The Supreme Court’s four big announcements today on religion Washington Post
***MUSIC
The Slow Death of the Electric Guitar Washington Post
***FILM
Hollywood Blockbusters Rule China’s Box Office This Summer Variety
The Ken Burns Effect Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Incredibles' Doesn't Really Start Until One Scene Halfway Through The Movie Digg
A Crash Course on Soviet Montage, the Russian Approach to Filmmaking That Revolutionized Cinema Open Culture
***SOCIOLOGY
Different languages: How cultures around the world draw shapes differently Quartz
How the country's wealthiest impact information access MSNBC
***HEALTH
Vaccines: Last Week Tonight (video) John Oliver
How Two Common Medications Became One $455 Million Specialty Pill Propublica
Here’s why you can go ahead and ignore all those clickbaiting ‘olive oil protects against Alzheimer’s’ headlines Health News Review
Our gut talks and sometimes argues with our brain. Now we know how Washington Post
CBS News says ‘yoga as good as physical therapy’–OK, but what does ‘good’ mean? Health News Review
Fever during pregnancy may increase autism risk Washington Post
Multiple health news ethical problems with Minneapolis TV station’s Mayo Clinic story on breast Cancer Health News Review
***NEUROSCIENCE
It's important to remember that forgetting is important New Atlas
Machine Learning and the Language of the Brain: trying to figure out how the human brain organizes language Next Platform
***CRITICAL THINKING
In Praise of Critical Thinking Vogue
***PHILOSOPHY
Six famous people who studied philosophy Washington Post
***ETHICS
Wall Street Journal fires prominent journalist Jay Solomon over ethics violation Business Insider
***RESEARCH
Problems with the jargon “statistically significant” and “clinically significant” Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
***HIGHER ED
Three major textbook publishers sue bookstore provider over pirated books Inside Higher Ed
***HUMANITIES /STEM
Foreign-born nearly doubled share of STEM workers since 1990 Axios
***TEACHING
The effects of text-message alerts to parents about students' GPAs Harvard
***STUDENT LIFE
How Accusing A Powerful Man of Rape Drove A College Student To Suicide BuzzFeed News
Aggressive grackles prompt campus warnings Daily Texas
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Tracking Athletes’ Sex Offenses Inside Higher Ed
U. of Oregon Athlete Played a Season While Under Investigation for Sexual Assault Daily Emerald (student newspaper)
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Going on Fox News cost me my job, professor claims NewJersey.com
Two more professors find themselves the target of physical threats and harassment Inside Higher Ed
Professors’ Growing Risk: Harassment for Things They Never Really Said Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Illustrated Guide to a PhD: 12 Simple Pictures That Will Put the Daunting Degree into Perspective Open Culture