***SOCIAL MEDIA
12 of the Best Social Media Analytics Tools (and How They Can Help Your Business) Social Media Today
3 brands that use social media snark effectively (and deliciously) PR Daily
Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit TechCrunch
We Followed YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole
***SOCIAL MEDIA: THE INFLUENCERS
10 Influencers under 10 Ad Age
2-year-old Instagrammers make more than you Fast Company
Is It Time to Regulate Social Media Influencers? (opinion) New York Magazine
***SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK
Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money Reveal News
Facebook plans to let Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp users message each other: All apps will support end-to-end encryption The Verge
Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours Propublica
***MOBILE
Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This New York Times
Get Ready for Weird Phones Wired
FaceTime bug lets you hear or see through someone else’s iPhone, even if they haven’t answered BongBong
***PRODUCING MEDIA
How to download Photoshop free or with Creative Cloud Creative Bloq
***JOURNALISM
How Innovative Newsrooms Are Using Artificial Intelligence Global Investigative Journalism Network
I'm glad I didn't give up on journalism" (L.A. Times' Kimi Yoshino) Poynter
Iowa House denying press credentials to influential blogger Associated Press
4chan trolls flood laid off HuffPost, BuzzFeed reporters with death threats NBC News
Crafted storytelling vs raw content Journalism.co
It doesn’t take a ton of nasty comments to sink a reader’s perception of a news site Harvard’s Neiman Lab
ProPublica makes corrections to a story about Oregon’s courts ProPublica
2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Edelman
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations CNN
The Economist launches daily news podcast with 8 staffers Digiday
What The Latest Layoffs Mean For Digital Journalism NPR
Johns Hopkins University is buying the building that houses the Newseum which will move Washington Post
Cancel in protest? Or stay with a local newspaper that’s being strip-mined for profits? Washington Post
***FAKE NEWS
Why Camera Angles And Bias Support Different Opinions NP
YouTube says it will crack down on recommending conspiracy videos CNN
Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election Venture Beat
Medical News: What Can You Trust? can you know when studies are based on solid science? Bottom Line Inc
Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election Science Mag
Do people fall for fake news because they’re partisan or because they’re lazy? Researchers are divided Harvard’s Nieman Lab
4 ways to know when a conspiracy theory is almost surely false Big Think
The man who helps the internet make fake news Columbia Journalism Review
***BIG DATA & AI
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next: the era of deep learning is coming to an end MIT Tech Review
Google’s DeepMind AI Is So Good It’s Beating Pro Gamers High Snobiety
Meet the scientists who are training AI to diagnose mental illness The Verge
10 influential data scientists and why you should follow them Tech Beacon
***INTERNET
10 Year Challenge: How Popular Websites Have Changed Arun
Google Urged the U.S. to Limit Protection For Activist Workers Bloomberg
Google putting money, machine learning into Wikipedia Wired
Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia CBS News
***EMAIL
Three new editing features in Gmail ZDnet
Google Tests Dynamic Email In Android App Media Post
How to Spend Way Less Time on Email Every Day Harvard Business Review
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Routine and Ritual Becoming (my blog)
There's little evidence that digital detoxes improve mental health Quartz
***WRITING & READING
The Most Redundant Words to Delete From Your Writing Medium
Students Want to Write Well; We Don’t Let Them (review of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities) LA Review of Books
'The New Childhood' makes case that video games, social media are good for kids USA Today
***LANGUAGE
Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years Chronicle of Higher Education
Learning a language means failure, embarrassment and the enrichment of your life LA Times
***LITERATURE
‘Keats is dead...’: How young women are changing the rules of poetry The Guardian
A dazzling array of works from 1923 are now available freely to scholars, artists and writers, opening up new possibilities for teaching and publishing Inside Higher Ed
15 Classic Titles If They Were Written As Clickbait Medium
Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? TEDx
***GENDER
India women: First female climbs sacred mountain BBC
Gender Gap most pronounced for publications in top journals London School of Economics and Political Science
This Mom Became The First Woman To Win A 268-Mile Race And Did It While Pumping Breast Milk For Her Baby BuzzFeed News
Why it’s much easier for men to get into the Ivy League than women New York Post
Masculinity And U.S. Extremism: What Makes Young Men Vulnerable To Toxic Ideologies NPR
Transgender pronouns provide challenge, opportunity in workplace San Francisco Chronicle
Ms., Mr. or Mx.? Nonbinary teachers embrace gender-neutral honorific NBC News
UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men The Guardian
Americans’ views on masculinity differ by party, gender and race Pew Research Center
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
Tips for finding and pitching stories with a race-focused angle The Ground Truth Product
Amazon’s facial analysis tech often mistakes dark-skinned women for men, study shows Vox
***LEGAL ISSUES
State judge declares Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" abortion ban unconstitutional Reuters
Supreme Court won’t hear a lawsuit over defamatory Yelp reviews The Verge
Expert witness wins billions—and makes enemies—as he fights companies over public health Science Mag
A Dutch surgeon formally disciplined for her medical negligence has won a legal action to remove Google search results The Guardian
What Happens to the Billions of Dollars of Counterfeits Seized Every Year? The Fashion Law Blog
Parody Washington Post Leads To Bogus Legal Threat, And A Reminder Of An Old Internet Lawsuit TechDirt
An Analysis of Title I and Title III of The Music Modernization Act Technology & Marketing Law Review
***CRIME
Austin police order deeper investigation after audit finds misclassified cleared rape cases Reveal News
Police Are Failing To Catch Most Shooters In Many Big Cities: Often, They Shoot Again BuzzFeed News
Emergency Blue-Light Phones Are a Symbol of Safety. Is Symbolism Worth Thousands? Chronicle of Higher Education
Shoot Someone In A Major US City, And Odds Are You'll Get Away With It: the percentage of shooters who escape justice has soared BuzzFeed News
How police departments make millions by seizing property The Greenville News
***RELIGION
After 24 Years, Scholar Completes 3,000-Page Translation Of The Hebrew Bible NPR
Pilots killed in Monday crash dedicated lives to Christian missions Times Reporter
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Provoked By Trump, The Religious Left Is Finding Its Voice NPR
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quotes the Bible after Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she should leave climate change up to God Business Insider
Trump administration grants waiver to agency that works only with Christian families Washington Post
Like Americans overall, U.S. Catholics are sharply divided by party Pew Research Center
Why Trump is tweeting about studying the Bible Vox
***GOOD NEWS
This girls basketball team lost 102-2, has no wins, yet keeps taking the court Tampa Bay
Golden retriever saves owner by leading an ambulance to him New York Post
Hingham teacher gets emotional surprise in viral video Patriot Ledger
66 Years On, Minn. Navy Medic Reunites With Baby Saved From Ash Can In Seoul WCCO
Couple working on home for charity finds hidden bag of money hidden and give it to the nonprofit Fox 9
Buddhist wins $670,000 in poker tournament, gives it to charity New York Post
Local Chick-fil-A opens Sunday for special needs boy WKRG
Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe The Guardian
When a boy called 911 after tough day at school, Lafayette dispatcher was there to help JC online
***ART & DESIGN
The winners of the 7th annual Ocean Art Photo competition New Atlas
Kamala Harris’s Logo Is a Disaster: Here’s Why The Bulwark
Design Checklist for the Perfect Charts UX Planet
How Color Affects our Perceptions of Art and Brands Medium
***MUSIC
Fender's new acoustic guitar has a million different voices Wired
The Most Sampled Loop in Music History Great Big Story
Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude Ars Technica
Every Place in Beatles Lyrics, Mapped Vanity Fair
The History of the Quirky Music Typewriter: Vintage Technologies for Printing Musical Notation Open Culture
A Brief History of Rock Musicians Who Went Electronic Vulture
An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton Pudding
***JOBS
How can you prepare for the future of work? The answer is not “learn to code” Recode
Oscar Mayer on the hunt for its next Wienermobile driver Fox 45
***INTERNSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS
Summer 2019 Journalism + Communications Academic Internship Program Washington, DC.
ProPublica is giving away 20 scholarships to help students attend journalism conferences
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Campus police told multiple times of student harassment: They did little—and he murdered her Inside Higher Ed
***SOCIAL ISSUES: IMMIGRATION
Majority of Americans Support High-Skilled Immigration Pew Research Center
They Left Food and Water for Migrants in the Desert – Now They Might Go to Prison Washington Post
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50% The Guardian
Former MS-13 Member Who Secretly Helped Police Is Deported: the teenager who cooperated with authorities only to be jailed with those he informed on ProPublica
***SOCIAL ISSUES: COVINGTON
PR firm played a key role in Covington Catholic controversy Courier-Journal
Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation 'not surprised' by D.C. controversy NBC News
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Alabama Church Gives $16,500 In Grocery Gift Cards To Furloughed Federal Workers Huffington Post
This is what happens when you try to sue your boss: Millions of American workers have signed away their legal rights without knowing they’ll be in for Abritration Hell Bloomberg
These are the 10 best freelance gigs and side hustles in 2019 Fast Company
***ENVIRONMENT
Most Americans say weather disasters shifted their views on climate change PBS
Civil penalties for polluters dropped dramatically in Trump’s first two years, analysis shows Washington Post
Activists want to carve Trump’s face into glacier to show climate change is real Metro.co
The New Language of Climate Change Politico
***HEALTH
The Cost of Giving Birth in the U.S. Scientific American Blog Network
The Mental Image of a Loved One Can Keep Down Blood Pressure Psychology Today
Washington is under a state of emergency as measles cases rise CNN
He wanted to see his cancer from the inside. With virtual reality, he can Stat News
This autism dad has a warning for anti-vaxxers Vox
***HEALTH RESEARCH
Scientists may have found a way to kill cancer cells without chemotherapy BigThink
Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying New York Times
***ANIMALS
The most special thing about squirrels may be that though we live in such close proximity to them, it turns out we hardly know them at all Quartz
Man says emotional support alligator helps his depression Associated Press
Watchdog: Animal deaths, including suffocation, at Boston-area lab Boston Herald
Vet Tech Warns Pet Parents After Dog Ingests Meth, THC at Dog Beach NBC San Diego
***SCIENCE
New Netflix Show 'Brainchild' Makes Science Fun For Kids NPR
A 500-Year-Long Science Experiment Started In 2014 The Atlantic
***PSYCHOLOGY
Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery The Guardian
Got Anger? Try Naming It To Tame It NPR
Art Thief Gives A Picture-Perfect Illustration Of The Bystander Effect Digg
200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking Big Think
***NEUROSCIENCE
Brain researchers warn that lack of sleep is a public health crisis New Haven Register
How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience Gizmodo
***PHILOSOPHY
Need a New Self-Help Guru? Try Aristotle New York Times
Søren Kierkegaard On the Perils of Procrastination Philosophy Now
Philosophy must be useful For Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, much of philosophy was mere nonsense: Then came Frank Ramsey’s pragmatic alternative Aeon
***PRODUCTIVITY
You can’t be productive without routines and rituals. Here’s why Fast Company
These are the most stressed out cities in America Zippia
A Nobel Prize-winning psychologist explains why we’re always wrong about how long tasks take Quartz
***HISTORY
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it Our World in Data
30 Years After Explosion, Challenger Engineer Still Blames Himself NPR
Historians talk about Walls Rolling Stone
The History of the phrase “Witch hunt!” Vox
***ETHICS
Reuters article highlights ethical issues with native advertising Columbia Journalism Review
‘Sinning against Science Itself’ Adolf Friedrich Nolde’s 1799 Code of Good Research Practice Researchet
***RESEARCH
Should Journal Editors be treated as 'Human Subjects'? Some People think so (opinion) Inside Higher Ed
University’s investigation of a researcher who published hoax papers misses the point of ethical oversight (opinion; sub. req’ed) Times Higher Ed
The humanities do not need a replication drive CWTS
How a ‘low-key’ study needed 89 professionals to approve it and how we can do better BMC
The Open Data Explosion: Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing The Scientist
Indian academics lead the world in publishing in fake journals – tarring the whole education sector Scroll.in
Dear Editor (An Authors' Wish List to Medical Journal Editors) Nature Microbiology
***HIGHER ED
Want to Learn How the World Sees Your College? Look on YouTube Chronicle of Higher Education
College administrators are figuring out how electronic cigarettes, which are exploding in popularity, fit into their antismoking policies Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Yes, Your Syllabus Is Way Too Long Chronicle of Higher Ed
When Online Trolls Show Up in Class, Should Professors Be Able to Ban Them? Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
University overhauls its system for faculty evaluation to de-emphasize quantitative metrics Inside Higher Ed
College fires professor accused of giving Nazi salute Associated Press
Website offers ‘complete PhD service’ for £36K (sub. req’ed) Times Higher Ed
Professor says criticism led to closure of program she heads Associated Press
Duke professor warns Chinese students: Speak English on campus or face ‘unintended consequences’ Washington Post
Ave Maria University calls the loan of a former professor who sued the university, possibly forcing him, his wife and their nine children from their home Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT MEDIA
Student Newspaper at Drexel University to cease print publication College Media Matters
A High School Allegedly Banned Students From Covering A Classmate’s Arrest BuzzFeed News
***STUDENT LIFE
Making a Gap Year More Than an Overseas Vacation Chronicle of Higher Education
Six college experiences that make students confident job seekers Gallup
Student files lawsuit over alleged plagiarism against UC Board of Regents Daily Cal
The Fleecing of Millennials New York Times
