Articles of Interest - March 18
/***JOURNALISM
Why Trump, in the era of fake news, is fueling journalism majors Roll Call
Fox News’ Shep Smith: 'History will poorly reflect' on journalists 'who intentionally misinform' The Hill
How the Seattle Times used a breaking news approach on enterprise reporting Better News
NYTimes Reporter Gets Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Dismissed As Judge Philosophizes About SLAPP Suits Tech Dirt
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The New York Times Is Planning to Experiment With Blockchain Publishing Coindesk
Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold Associated Press
Facebook enters the news desert battle, trying to find enough local news for its Today In feature Nieman Lab
***TECHNOLOGY
Google is reportedly shutting down its in-house VR film studio Tech Crunch
Denver will allow smartphone voting for thousands of people Denver Post
You will soon be able to pay your subway fare with your face in China South China Morning Post
***BIG DATA & AI
No, scientists didn’t just “reverse time” with a quantum computer MIT Tech Review
The NSA makes open source its cybersecurity tool Ghidra Wired
Some scientists are arguing that the latest techniques in machine learning and AI represent a fundamentally new way of doing science Quanta Magazine
How Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Medicine New York Times
***SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features NBC News
Can Too Much Time Online Make You Depressed? NPR
'Distracted boyfriend' couple star in Hungary pro-family ads BBC
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is Google Docs The Atlantic
Facebook Can Make VR Avatars Look—and Move—Exactly Like You Wired
Facebook's sloppy data-sharing deals might be criminal Wired
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent NBC News
Scientific American: The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does Scientific American
Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo Now on Chrome as a Default Search Option Digital Trends
Facebook faces fresh questions over when it knew of data harvesting The Guardian
***PRIVACY & GOOGLE
What Google Knows About You Axios
Google Quietly Adds Search Engine Privacy Option To Chrome - Here's How To Enable It Forbes
***PRODUCING MEDIA
Calendars might be the next great online publishing tool Poynter
***INTERNET
At age 30, World Wide Web is 'not the web we wanted' ABC News
50 Years of the Internet: What we Learned & Where we are going next Tech Crunch
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The Value of Community Becoming (my blog)
Sorry to bother you, but do you say “sorry” too much? What to say instead Ted Ideas
***WRITING & READING
Publisher withdraws Derek Thomas’ Acts commentary due to plagiarism by the Presbyterian Pastor World Magazine
Public demand apology from artist at center of plagiarism scandal Global Times
***LANGUAGE
Mistakes are the engine of language’s evolution Economist
How ‘F’ Sounds Might Break a Fundamental Rule of Linguistics The Atlantic
***LITERATURE
Why should you read Sylvia Plath? (video) TED-Ed
***GENDER
If "Guys" Is Problematic, "Ya'll" Is Problematic Too The Stranger
The share of women in legislatures around the world is growing, but they are still underrepresented Pew Research Center
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Black editor steps down from Alabama newspaper that called for KKK to ‘ride again’ AL.com
Mastermind Behind College Admission Scam Reportedly Faked Ethnicity of Students On Applications BET
***FREE SPEECH
Court: Flipping the bird to cop is free speech Washington Post
How Businesses Are Testing the Limits of Free Speech Wharton
***LEGAL ISSUES
Timbs v. Indiana: Supreme Court on Policing for Profit The Atlantic
Who Owns a Meme? A legal battle over Fortnite raises many questions without clear answers One Zero
'Star Trek'/Dr. Seuss Mashup Deemed Copyright Fair Use by Judge Hollywood Reporter
Two Examples of How Courts Interpret Emojis Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***LEGAL ISSUES: DEFAMATION
Tweet Containing Question Mark Isn’t Defamatory Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Tennessee high court rules for reporter in defamation suit ABC News
Nicholas Sandmann’s legal case against CNN is basically “MAGA” Slate
***CRIME
Public regularly denied access to police officer videos Associated Press
AI is being used to predict crime and send people to jail, but it could be just as biased as humans CNBC
***RELIGION
The Gospel Coalition, pastor CJ Mahoney and Sexual Abuse (opinion) Medium
Teen suspended after posting Bible verses around school, district says there's more to the story WLWT
Survey: Faith groups maintain widespread support for LGBT protection laws National Catholic Reporter
Inside Denver's International Church of Cannabis Cosmopolitan
Giant underwater Jesus draws hundreds to frozen Lake Michigan Fox News
Belief in aliens could be America’s next religion The Outline
***RELIGION OUTSIDE THE U.S.
China official says West using Christianity to undermine country Reuters
Meet Romania's very internet-savvy witch community Wired
***RELIGION AND MONEY
Bible signed by Trump fetches $325 on eBay Fox News
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability suspends Chicago-area megachurch Religious News Service
ECFA appears to lack meaningful oversight of members’ financies (opinion) The Throckmorton Blog
***THE MOSQUE ATTACK IN NZ
People Leaving Flowers at Mosques After Christchurch Attack TIME
Sikhs In New Zealand Are Helping Victims Of Shooting With Free Langars StoryPick
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Evangelical approval of Trump remains high, but other religious groups are less supportive Pew Research Center
***GOOD NEWS
Egg Boy' to donate money raised for him towards victims of Christchurch attack New Zealand Herald
New Jersey teen overcomes homelessness, gets accepted to 17 colleges CNN
The "Trashtag Challenge" Is A Wonderful Viral Trend That Has People Picking Up Trash Everywhere BuzzFeed News
You got this!’: Mom who beat stage 4 pancreatic cancer writes open letter to Alex Trebek FOX-8
Chess Champion 8 year old Homeless Refugee New York Times
***REALLY?!
Loose cow ends up at Chick-fil-a following police chase Tribune Media Wire
Sons prank dad with giant billboard for birthday, prompting calls from around the world FOX 4 Kansas City
50 years after graduation, University of Michigan alum receives congratulatory telegram Michigan Live
Vermont town elects goat named Lincoln as its honorary mayor Associated Press
Slovenian woman's hand sawn off 'in insurance fraud' BBC News
***ART & DESIGN
If Your Favorite Typefaces Were Celebrities Medium
Healing the Healers: Art among physicians Forbes
***MUSIC
Tom Odell: “I couldn’t make the music I make today without having learned music theory” Music Radar
The BBC cutting Late Junction is a blow for experimental music The Guardian
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Senate easily approves bill giving sex abuse victims more time to sue Politico
Gallup Survey: ewer men say sexual harassment in the workplace is major problem The Hill
Women in Economics Report Rampant Sexual Assault and Bias New York Times
***SOCIAL ISSUES
The College Scam Is Exposing All the Legal Ways Rich People Game Society VICE
11 death penalty states haven’t used it in a decade or more Pew Research Center
What the college admissions scandal reveals about the psychology of wealth in America Vox
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
***ENVIRONMENT
A relatively painless guide to cutting plastic out of your life Fast Company
Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn't Want It? NPR
***HEALTH
Being a couch potato 'bad for the memory of over-50s' BBC
How to Negotiate Down Your Hospital Bills The Atlantic
Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms MIT News
Electronic Health Records' Side Effects: Fraud, Burnout And Headaches NPR
***TRAVEL
See Photos of This Year's California Super Bloom Travel + Leisure
25 Healthy Travel Airplane Snacks to Keep In Your Carry-On Women’s Day
***FOOD
Good enough to eat? The toxic truth about modern food The Guardian
The Most Popular Pie in Every State ChowHound
***PARENTING
How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood New York Times
Parents Are Only Happy with Kids When They Can Afford Them Fatherly
***RELATIONSHIPS
How People Meet Their Partners FlowingData
Why millennials are writing contracts for their relationships Washington Post
***ANIMALS
A Couple Created Good Boy, A Line Of Beer Your Dog Can Drink Delish
Barking drones used on farms instead of sheep dogs Radio NZ
Snoop The Dog Is Loving Life In New Home After Being Abandoned LADbible
Georgetown’s Kitten Lounge makes the cat cafe around the corner seem like old mews The Washington Post
Viral cat videos and the man who watches thousands of them BBC
***SCIENCE
Science tends to be presented as a firmly established epistemological method: but it isn't Medium
Brain wave stimulation may improve Alzheimer’s symptoms MIT News
***PSYCHOLOGY
Why Do People Believe in Pseudoscience? Gizmodo
Study: One in Six U.S. Children Has a Mental Illness American Assoc of Family Physicians
***NEUROSCIENCE
Forgetting Uses More Brain Power Than Remembering UT News
Can a Neuroscience Video Game Treat ADHD? Ed Surge
***ETHICS
Moratorium On Gene-Edited Babies Urged By Leading Geneticists NPR
The seven moral rules that supposedly unite humanity Quartz
The Larger Lie Beyond the College Admissions Bribery Case TIME
***RESEARCH
University College Dublin issues apology after computer science students were sent email asking to help develop sex consent app The Journal.ie
Continued Citation of Retracted Radiation Oncology Literature—Do We Have a Problem? Int Journal of Radiation Oncology
Even the head of $6M liver study doesn’t know what’s going on at San Diego VA Inewsource
How to write a good scientific paper Brunel University London The Journal
Improving the peer review process: a proposed market system Scientometrics
Should journals become more like content curators? ResearchResearch
Ten myths around open scholarly publishing PeerJ
The systemic problem behind the rise of retractions Perspectives on Behavior Science
***HIGHER ED
Celebrities among 50 charged in college admissions scam for unworthy kids, prosecutors say Vice
College Access And Inequality NPR
The U. of Southern California Is on the Rise. Why Is It a Hotbed of Scandal? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Azusa Pacific University lifts LGBTQ relationship ban (again) San Gabriel Valley Tribune
PCUSA’s only seminary in Western US to become part of nonsectarian Calif University Christian Post
***TEACHING
Research scholars to air problems with using 'grit' at school The Hechinger Report
***STUDENT MEDIA
Students At UCLA Weigh In On College Admissions Scandal With 'Daily Bruin' Editorial NPR
***STUDENT LIFE
No One Asks the Top CEOs Where They Went to College Bloomberg
Orange County, Calif., School District Responds To Students' Offensive Social Media NPR
Millennials really are special, data show Washington Post
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Popular alternative-academic career platform owned by foundation behind the admissions scheme Inside Higher Ed
FBI: Former assistant planned to kill professor with ax Associated Press
Adjunct faculty at Elon University vote to unionize Greensboro