Articles of Interest - August 5
/***JOURNALISM
Women Rewriting the Rules of Reporting in the Arab World The New York Times
What newsrooms need to know about Americans’ news habits RTDNA
Investigative journalism students play a key role in overturning a conviction Harvard’s Nieman Report
I’ve Seen the Limits of Journalism The Atlantic
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Dying Gasp of One Local Newspaper The New York Times
A Future without a Front Page The New York Times
***FAKE NEWS
He Was The Face Of A Bike-A-Thon To Fight Cancer. He Was Also A Fake The New York Times
***SOCIAL MEDIA
10 facts about Americans and Twitter Pew Research
The 2019 Instagram Rich List — Who Earns The Most From Sponsored Posts? Hopper HQ
TikTok, The Internet's Hottest Meme Breeding Ground, Turns 1 NPR
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind MIT Tech Review
EU ruling says sites could be liable for user-tracking Facebook Like buttons The Verge
Why doesn’t Facebook help after your account gets hacked? Digitsal Trends
Facebook says it dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudi Arabia Reuters
***BIG DATA & AI
Chaos Computing: What it is and why we should care about it? Medium
***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Capital One Says Hacker Breached Accounts Of 100 Million People; Ex-Amazon Employee Arrested Forbes
Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US The Guardian
Kids at the center of facial recognition Axios
Internet of Things Cybersecurity Tips Offered by Science Agency Bloomberg
***PRODUCING MEDIA
PR’s Journalistic Roots Help Brands Transition to Digital Story Hunter
***INTERNET
People forged judges’ signatures to trick Google into changing results ArsTechnica
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Tech giants crush other media despite looming threats Axios
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Motivated Reasoning Becoming (my blog)
The trick that makes you overspend BBC
***GRAMMAR
The Birth of the Semicolon The Paris Review
Grammar rules are an invention: It’s time to stop taking them so seriously NBC News
A Defense of the Semicolon and Other Adventures in the English Language New York Times
***WRITING & READING
Dallas bodycam footage released showing moments before death of unarmed man NBC News
Authors Guild Hides Jokes In Their Copyright Notices Tech Dirt
***LANGUAGE
Because Internet,' A Guide To Our Changing Language, LOL NPR
Is the English language better because of the Internet? This linguist thinks so CTV
***LITERATURE
From every teen to annoying: are today's young readers turning on The Catcher in the Rye? The Guardian
A School Librarian's Philosophy of Lost Books School Library
How Japan's modern literature came under Nietzsche's spell Japan Times
***BORDER ISSUES
Border Patrol Detained a 9-Year-Old American Girl on Her Way to School for 32 Hours GQ
California professors install seesaws along U.S.-Mexico border wall NBC News
***POETRY
I’m ditching social media for poetry books this summer The Times
Opera inspired Walt Whitman; now his poetry is doing the same for musicians Star Tribune
The place of poetry and the poetry of place SMH
***GENDER
Transgender treatment: Puberty blockers study under investigation BBC
This Journal's Future Is Female Inside Higher Ed
Craving Freedom, Japan's Women Opt Out Of Marriage The New York Times
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
How white nationalists have co-opted fan fiction Wired
‘It was terrifying’: Black Chadds Ford couple left shaken by white Pa. trooper’s alleged misconduct Philadelphia Inquirer
***CRIME & COURTS
Amazon Ring alerts often tie up police with false alarms Cent
No Immunity For Cops Who Arrested A Man For Creating A Facebook Page Mocking The Police Department Tech Dirt
Court warns reporters to be careful publishing reports from police logs Universal Hub
***RELIGIION
Early Christian 'Church of the Apostles' Possibly Unearthed Near Sea of Galilee Live Science
The Story Behind John Allen Chau, An American Missionary Who Was Killed While Working NPR
Evangelical Publisher’s Africa-Themed Bible School Kit Had Kids Pretending To Be Slaves Huff Post
What did church teach white students posing with guns in front of Emmett Till marker? Religion in the News
Radical Baptist church preaches LGBTQ hate just miles from California’s Capitol LA Times
Evangelicals’ Civility Religion in Public
U.S. Jews know a lot about religion – but other Americans know little about Judaism Pew Research
Christian group warns against rise of 'Christian nationalism' The Hill
***GOOD NEWS
Nurse helps save driver who crashed into her home Fox 35
***REALLY?!
Texas Man Caught With Missile Launcher In Checked Baggage At BWI Airport CBS Baltimore
The runner who makes elaborate artwork with his feet and a map The Guardian
Will Hitler HQ makeover create a Nazi theme park? BBC
***ART & DESIGN
Thousands of Miniature Mirrors Dazzle and Refract in Multi-Media Sculptures by Lee Bul The is Colossal
Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial The New York Times
Fine and Street Art Aesthetics Merge in Anthony Lister’s Expressive Murals The is Colossal
Yulia Brodskaya Reveals Her Process of ‘Painting With Paper’ in a New Book The is Colossal
Meticulous Portraits of Young Women by Ozabu Are Eerily Fused with Plants and Feathers The is Colossal
***MUSIC
Why the Katy Perry/Flame lawsuit makes no sense (video)
Showtime's four part docuseries on Rick Rubin Showtime
The Wizard of Oz vs Lil Nas X (video) Lewis Wake Memes
***ARTICLES ABOUT JOBS
Journalism career advice Twitter threat
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Ohio State’s troubled sexual assault center failed to report 57 potential felonies, audit finds Dispatch
Students accused of sexual harassment sue California universities LA Times
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
The Invention of Money New Yorker
***ENVIRONMENT
Trails of Wind (visualization)
Ethiopia Plants 350 Million Trees in One Day to Combat Drought Bloomberg
***HEALTH
Babies get critical gut bacteria from their mother at birth, not from placenta, study suggests Science Mag
Where People Don't Get Enough Sleep, Mapped Digg
Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe Wired
High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism University of Cambridge
***TRAVEL
***FOOD
Is it unsafe or just unsightly? There’s an art to assessing produce Washington Post
America's Most Popular Burger Places, Visualized Digg
The first guacamole recipe written in English came from a British pirate Vox
***CHILDREN
Why Kids Invent Imaginary Friends The Atlantic
Behind gender-reveal party fouls, a parenting truth Washington Post
Kids See Bearded Men As Strong — But Unattractive, Study Finds NPR
Dying Dad Writes 'I Love You Like...' Book for Young Son MSN
Japanese park encourages kids to play with saws, light bonfires for learning experiences SoraNews24
***ANIMALS
Pit bull grabs baby by diaper, saves her from fire ABC-13
Meet he’e the octopus The Guardian
***SCIENCE
A scientific Ponzi scheme University of Pittsburg
The Milky Way is warped around the edges, new star map confirms National Geographic
Japanese Scientists Plan to Create Human-Mouse Hybrids: Here's How Live Science
***PSYCHOLOGY
Should Psychology Journals Adopt Specialized Statistical Review? Sage Journals
Paths to Treating Mental Illness (opinion) The New York Times
How expectation influences perception MIT Tech Review
The Psychiatric 'Wonder Drug' That Almost No One Is Using VICE
***NEUROSCIENCE
A cold case team is searching for who betrayed Anne Frank National Geographic
Neuroscientists find brain activity patterns that indicate how expectation influences perception MIT
UCSF Researchers Synthesize Speech From Brain Waves MIT Tech Review
***RESEARCH
Some of the scientists said that the prospect of financing blinded them to the seriousness of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual transgressions The New York Times
Fudged research results erode people’s trust in experts The Conversation
Why we shouldn’t take peer review as the gold standard Washington Post
Joint position statement on predatory publishing Taylor & Francis Online
***HIGHER ED
Wealthy Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their Kids to Get Need-Based College Financial Aid Propublica
Tribal Colleges Struggle to Connect Diverse Educaiton
Major Universities are launching cannabis degrees and courses Quartz
Federal panel on accreditation will study how regional agencies should monitor politicians' influence over public colleges Inside Higher Ed
“The $300 textbook is dead,” says the CEO of textbook maker Pearson Vox
Some Colleges Collect More From Their Students Than They Spend Actually Teaching Forbes
Grandson of NNU Founder Passes Away Northwest Nazarene University
***TEACHING
Author discusses approaches that work to get students to the finish line Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Are New Graduates Happier Making More Money or Having More Time? Harvard Business Review
Millennials say dating has gotten 'way too expensive,' 30% can't even afford love USA Today
A Fraternity Member Who Had "A Fascination With Death" Allegedly Encouraged Five People To Kill Themselves BuzzFeed News
New data on the first three jobs held by graduates of six popular majors show career pathways are a swirl rather than a straight line Inside Higher Ed
22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends” Vox
Almost 70 percent of college students favor banning assault-style weapons Newsweek
Why is the teen birth rate falling? Pew Research
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Major study led by a lifelong Republican finds no evidence that professors are discriminating against conservative students Pacific Standard
For academics, what matters more: journal prestige or readership? Science Mag
Academic freedom, scholarly responsibility and the new gender wars University Affairs
College faculty have become more racially and ethnically diverse, but remain far less so than students Pew Research