***SOCIAL MEDIA
Four-Year-Old Girl Throws Dad's Phone into the Sea because he spent too much time on it Metro
6 studies on digital news and social media you should know about Journalists Resources
Hacker swipes Snapchat's source code, publishes it on GitHub The Next Web
How people in countries around the world say LOL Digg
Emoji are replacing flags as the most important regional symbol of the digital era Quartz
Facebook news chief to media: ‘Work with Facebook or die’ BongBong
***SOCIAL MEDIA: INSTAGRAM
5 Instagram updates you should know about as a communications professional Muckrack
Instagram users are reporting the same bizarre hack Mashable
***TECHNOLOGY
When Bots Teach Themselves to Cheat: The roots of algorithmic impishness Wired
The wireless mic systems used by countless schools, churches, theaters, and other venues, are about to become obsolete, all because the Telcom companies muscled in Wired
This is Where Augmented Reality Is Headed Daily Infographic
***JOURNALISM
ProPublica to Expand Local Reporting Network to Focus on State Governments ProPublica
Facebook puts $4.5 million more into news support with a membership accelerator and News Match cash Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Journalism isn’t dying: But it is changing in ominous ways Washington Post
Why We Need More Journalism Courses Taught in Prison Harvard’s Nieman Reports
***JOURNALISM & POLITICS
Poll: Nearly half of Republicans think Trump should have authority to shutter media outlets The Hill
In Germany, a news site is pairing up liberals and conservatives and actually getting them to (gasp) have a civil conversation Harvard’s Nieman Lab
More than 100 newspapers will publish editorials decrying Trump's anti-press rhetoric Boston Globe
Retraction of a retraction over report that Fla. candidate is not the college graduate she says she is Washington Post
NABJ passes resolution condemning attacks by President Donald Trump and his administration on press freedom The National Association of Black Journalists
***FAKE NEWS
Alex Jones, the First Amendment, and the Digital Public Square New Yorker
There will always be another Alex Jones Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Surgeon falsely accused of wrongdoing tries to recover his name CNN
Analysis of fake YouTube views Flowing Data
Alex Jones And Online Content Regulation (opinion) National Coalition Against Censorship
Is PolitiFact biased? This content analysis says no Poynter ***PRIVACY & SECURITY
Hackers account for 90% of login attempts at online retailers Quartz
Hacking a brand new mac remotely, right out of the box Wired
Smartphone voting is happening, but no one knows if it's safe Wired
The Internet of Things Needs Food Safety-Style Ratings for Privacy and Security Motherboard
Police bodycams can be hacked to doctor footage Wired
Google tracks your movements, like it or not Associated Press
Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap New York Times
Millions of Android devices are vulnerable right out of the box Wired
Fortnite on Android at risk of malware The Stack
Judge: App User Accused In Planning Charlottesville Rally Can't Keep Identity Hidden NPR
***BIG DATA & AI
Even anonymous coders leave fingerprints that machine learning can pick up: writing samples, even in artificial languages, contain a unique fingerprint that’s hard to hide Wired
***PERSONAL GROWTH
Self-Control can be Contagious Becoming (my blog)
Why We Are Never Truly Satisfied Medium
Why some people choose to do evil Aeon
On the benefits of a blue period Aeon
***WRITING & READING
Avoiding ‘False Titles’: How Some News Publications Try Not to Sound Like Other News Publications Chronicle of Higher Ed
Slack Copywriting: What They Say to 9.6 Million Pageviews Every Month Medium
***LANGUAGE
“Untranslatable” words tell us more about English speakers than other cultures Quzrtz
We Use Sports Terms All the Time. But Where Do They Come From? New York Times
***LITERATURE
When Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot Were Penpals Daily Jstor
V.S. Naipaul, Trinidad-born British author and Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 85 Penn Live
***GENDER
Make Your Daughter Practice Math: She’ll Thank You Later New York Times
100 Women Who Changed the World History Extra
How feminism has made me a better scientist Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Gender studies programs to be banned in Hungary Hungarian Free Press
Are boys better than Girls at Math Scientific American
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
White threat in a browning America (Ezra Klein) Vox
The White Nationalists Are Winning The Atlantic
The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America Chronicle of Higher Ed
***FREE SPEECH
Is there a free speech “crisis” on campus? The FIRE
Do free speech issues on campus only stifle conservatives? Education Dive
***LEGAL ISSUES
Disney Finds It's Not So Easy to Sue Over Knockoff Characters at Birthday Parties Hollywood Reporter
ABA Clarifies Rules on Lawyer Advertising (Sort Of) Law.com
***RELIGION
California Police chief helps apprehend his own son in attack on Sikh man ABC News
Why America’s ‘nones’ don’t identify with a religion Pew Research
Losing Faith: Why South Carolina is abandoning its churches The State
John Piper Changed ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness.’ Experts Weigh In Christianity Today
Southern Baptists posted a video opposing animal cruelty — and then profusely apologized for it Washington Post
***RELIGION AND POLITICS
Church charges against Attorney General Sessions are dropped CNN
***GOOD NEWS
How You Can Use Your Frequent Flyer Miles to Help Reunite Separated Families Mental Floss
Groom (and Coast Guard officer) interrupts his own wedding to save a drowning man People
LeBron James Family Foundation's I Promise School opens in Akron Cleveland.com
How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy The Atlantic
Border Collie helps homeless, aimless man become rich: “Before I had Sylar, my life was a mess” ABC News
The mother of a Waffle House shooting survivor got a wedding dress for the waitress who saved her son CNN
Man uses his own body to cushion dog's fall from building The Week
These Twenty-Somethings Got Heart Transplants on the Very Same Day And Then They Fell in Love Washingtonian
***ART & DESIGN
2018 Winning Photographs iPhone Photography Awards
LA's Awesome History Of Weird, Food-Shaped Restaurants LAist
Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data Visualisation Data Wrapper
Art exhibit slammed for 'promoting communism' CNN
***MUSIC
See Ancient Greek Music Accurately Reconstructed for the First Time Open Culture
***FILM
'BlacKkKlansman' Sounds Like It's Made Up But It's A True Story NPR
No Shark Film has ever not made money Atlas
How Westerns captured the American psyche and eventually bit the dust (video) Aeon
Best science fiction movies of all time, according to critics Business Insider
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
The tangled mess of marketing networks is crumbling The Next Web
The Local TV Consolidation War is here Axios
***STUDENT MEDIA
For young people, socialism is now more popular than capitalism Fast Company
***STUDENT LIFE
The newly coined Chinese buzzword that refers to awkward millennials Quzrtz
Millennials Are Making a Costly Investment Mistake Bloomberg
How Three New York Times Summer Interns Trusted Their Gut and Made the Front Page New York Times
The Parkland generation has huge plans for this fall Axios
***JOBS & INTERNSHIPS
An editor’s guide to creating an online portfolio Poynter
The Washington Post 2019 Summer Internship Program
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Anything to Avoid a Scandal": How Colleges Sideline Sexual Abuse TruthOut
BethAnn McLaughlin “talks about her experiences with trying to change how the scientific community copes with sexual assault and harassment The-Scientist
Congressman Accused Of Domestic Abuse By Former Girlfriend NPR
Former Ohio State Students Report Decades Of Sexual Misconduct By University Physician NPR
Journalism professor resigns months after accusations of sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace behavior Daily Northwestern
***SOCIAL ISSUES
How to delete all your tweets (or just the worst ones) Poynter
Record number of forcibly displaced people lived in sub-Saharan Africa in 2017 Pew Research
***ETHICS
Rich People More Likely to Lie, Cheat, & Steal Washington Post
Children are being euthanized in Belgium (opinion) Washington Post
***BUSINESS & FINANCE
Astroturfing: the practice of companies and interest groups disguising themselves as grassroots movements (video) John Oliver
Fortnite Mania Fuels Epic Growth to $8.5 Billion Bloomberg
Why Small Teams Win And Bigger Ones Fail UX planet
WeWork’s Meat Ban Tells Us Who They Are Bloomberg
Some tips on how to retire your debt before you quit working Detroit Free Press
How Dollar General took over rural America The Guardian
For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades Pew Research
Employer expectations on off-hours email: new study shows adverse health effects on workers and families Virginia Tech
***HEALTH
Women More Likely to Survive Heart Attacks If Treated by Female Doctors The Atlantic
Cancer Patients who use alternative medicine have a greater risk of dying prematurely Science Daily
Experimental Alzheimer's drug stirs hope after early trials CNN
It’s easy to become obese in America: These 7 charts explain why Vox
Why Blue Light Is So Bad: The Science — And Some Solutions Health
Brain Scans Suggest Women Sustain More Damage heading soccer balls than men Boston Globe
***HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
A New Pacemaker Hack Puts Malware Directly On The Device Wired
The $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life With Diabetes Nexts Draft
***FAMILY
Aurora parents fighting to stop legally adopted 4-year-old daughter from being deported FOX31 Denver
Parents warn it's 'time to put down the Fortnite' in back-to-school parody Today
***SCIENCE
Why scientists are infiltrating music festivals The Week
A Conversation with the Only Scientist in Congress Scientific American
***PSYCHOLOGY
How Accessible is Psychology Data? Discover Magazine
Studying Unpopular Ideas in Psychology Psychology Today
***TRAVEL
The 2018 Friendliest Cities in the World CNN
The U.S. Pizza Museum Gives Chicago a Pizza Party Sans Divisiveness Chicago Eater
***RESEARCH
Why We Need Whistleblowing for Research Integrity Wiley
India cracks down on plagiarism at universities But some researchers say new rules don’t go far enough Nature
Can automated tools reliably rate research reproducibility? Nature Index
How to work with your institution’s press office to maximize the reach of your work Nature
An Excel error sinks a paper Hormones and Behavior Science Direct
Bruno and Bob going to a predatory conference The Ice Cream Blog
***HIGHER ED
The 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America CNN
British economists: Sports destroy happiness Washington Post
Misspelling On Thousands Of Diplomas Goes Unnoticed For 6 Years CBS Denver
How a university punished a whistle blower The Research Whisperer
These Are the 727 Best Colleges in America (Mount Vernon 432, Azusa 460), MidAmerica 484, PLNU 501, Cal Baptist 639) TIME
Court filing: Top Baylor officials ‘concealed reports of serial sexual assault’ KWTX
Unexplained Turnover at Benedictine U Inside Higher Ed
***TEACHING
Online Learning Is Misunderstood: Here's How Chronicle of Higher Ed
Why I'm Easy: On Giving Lots of A's Chronicle of Higher Ed
3 things to know about the students arriving on campus this month Education Dive
Getting Ready for Teaching This Fall Chronicle of Higher Ed
A professor shares some promising results from sending a personalized message to students who failed her first exam Chronicle of Higher Ed
Report Shows Drop in Students in Teacher Ed Inside Higher Ed
How to Escape Grading Jail Chronicle of Higher Ed
***ACADEMIC LIFE
She’s the world’s top empathy researcher. But colleagues say she bullied and intimidated them Science Mag
Texas backtracks after allowing a professor banned from advising graduate students to teach undergraduates this fall Inside Higher Ed
Professor accused of bullying students will stop teaching immediately The Gazette
