***SOCIAL MEDIA
Why Social Media Isn't Always Very Social NPR
Business publishers are enjoying traffic spikes from LinkedIn Digiday
Facebook debuts a Twitter-like ‘Latest Conversations’ feature that shows public posts about buzzing topics Tech Crunch
7 ‹Title Tag› Hacks for Increased Rankings + Traffic Moz
Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable New York Times
Not Your Dad's Keyword Tool: Advanced Keyword Research Use Cases Moz
***GRAMMAR
A Deliberate Front-Page Typo? Australia Media Watchers Debate AdWeek
Grammarly raises $110 million for a better spell check Tech Crunch
***WRITING & READING
In Praise of the First Person Chronicle of Higher Ed
The Elements of Style: "50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice" BongBong
False Titles Chronicle of Higher Ed
***LANGUAGE
Translation platforms cannot replace humans: But they are still astonishingly useful Economist
The Linguistic Trickery of False Friends Jstor
The 23 Most Common Languages In The World Daily Infographic
***THE BUSINESS OF MEDIA
Sinclair Broadcasting acquires Tribune Media Talking New Media
***JOURNALISM
What it's like to report in one of the world's deadliest places for journalists LA Times
The U of M journalism school renames itself for a Trump donor City Pages
J-Schools Dump Accreditor Inside Higher Ed
How We’re Learning To Do Journalism Differently in the Age of Trump ProPublica
Lapse of Northwestern’s accreditation sheds light on fast-moving world of journalism education Poynter
***THE BUSINESS OF JOURNALISM
The New York Times reports higher revenue, income as digital subscriptions surge in Q1 Talking New Media
McClatchy loses $95.6M in Q1, due to falling print advertising and impairment charges Talking New Media
Gannett newspapers are hiding an important local story Columbia Journalism Review
How the New York Times saved itself: Subscriptions, not ads Recode
***FAKE NEWS
6 Ways to Fight the Spread of Fake News, from AP’s Fact Check Team Associated Press
The Age of Misinformation: How Online Platforms Shape American Discourse The Atlantic
Google Rewrites Its Powerful Search Rankings to Bury Fake News Bloomberg
Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action Harvard's Shorestein Center
Facebook Drops Accounts in Fake News Fight Associated Press
***GENDER
Harvard Business School Moves To Study More Diverse Cases NPR
Jury Awards $1.4 Million to Former Senior Female Athletics Official in gender and sexual orientation discrimination lawsuit Press Citizen
Measles sweeps an immigrant community targeted by anti-vaccine activists Stat News
Overwatch helped pave the way for the first women’s college in esports Polygon
Does Gender Matter in Workplace Culture? Daily Infographic
***RACE & ETHNICITY ISSUES
American University is dealing with a racist incident on its campus. It is not alone Washington Post
This ACLU Lawsuit Over A Mississippi County Sheriff's Office Could Be A Sign Of Big Things To Come BuzzFeed News
***FREE SPEECH
States Consider Legislation To Protect Free Speech On Campus NPR
How Censorship Works New York Times
***LEGAL ISSUES
A Photographer Sued a Student Over a School Project. Guess How That Turned Out (hint: fair use wins) Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Can a pastor legally defame members of his flock from the pulpit? Charlotte Observer
Can Your Employer Fire You For Posting Vacation Photos to Facebook? Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Why More Historians Are Embracing the Amicus Brief Chronicle of Higher Ed
You Can’t Be Fired For a Facebook Post Calling Your Boss a “LOSER” Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Teaching Law In An Age Of Anxiety Huffington Post
How Should a Lawyer Respond to a Yelp Review Calling Him “Worst. Ever.”? Technology & Marketing Law Blog
***TECHNOLOGY
We Were Warned About Flaws in the Mobile Data Backbone for Years. Now 2FA Is Screwed Mother Board
***BIG DATA
Why it may be better to have fewer predictors in machine learning models? KD Nuggets
NGA now delivers unclassified geospatial intel to verified Gov users via an app for tablets & mobile devices SIGNAL
Just how accurate are algorithms at spotting fake news? Data Science Central
Where we stand with automated Machine Learning ..and where it is likely going KD Nuggets
***RELIGION
Ending Catholicism in England and introducing the Reformation was a messy and conflicted process Economist
Read the full text of Trump’s executive order on religious freedom Washington Post
Though still conservative, young evangelicals are more liberal than their elders on some issues Pew Research Center
Openly Gay Bishop At Center Of Controversy In United Methodist Church NPR
Evangelicals and the Supreme Court (opinion) Religion News Service
The IRS rarely targets pastors. But a preacher was once arrested — for saying the word ‘fork’ Washington Post
***ART & DESIGN
With This Interactive Font Map, You Have No Excuse For Defaulting To Helvetica On Everything Digg
The Weird Words and Phrases Designers Use to Test Their Fonts Wired
Most popular colors used by most popular sites Flowing Data
***SEXUAL HARASSMENT & ASSAULT
Two lawsuits -- one involving accused student’s suicide and another about an attempt -- have added fire to the continued debate over how colleges handle complaints of sexual assault Inside Higher Ed
It Took Years For A University To Punish This Professor After Harassment Allegations Were First Made BuzzFeed
Doing the Right Thing in Sexual-Misconduct Cases (opinion) Chronicle of Higher Ed
Sex assaults in high school sports minimized as 'hazing' Associated Press
***SCIENCE
Mixing Thermodynamics and the Quantum World to get quantum thermodynamics Wired
***HEALTH
The remarkable promise of cell-free biology Economist
***PSYCHOLOGY
For college students grappling with mental illness, the world can seem colorless USA Today
***RESEARCH
Integrity starts with the health of research groups: Funders should force universities to support laboratories’ research health Nature
The Future of Peer Review The Scholarly Kitchen
Progress toward openness, transparency, and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience Wiley Online Library
Steady, strong growth is expected for open-access journals Physics Today
***PERSONAL GROWTH
The line separating good and evil Becoming (my blog)
Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl Explains Why If We Have True Meaning in Our Lives, We Can Make It Through the Darkest of Times Open Culture
***HIGHER ED
A Public University Acquires A Big For-Profit, And Raises Big Questions NPR
Holy Cross VP paints bleak future for college in emails mistakenly sent to students South Bend Tribune
***HUMANITIES /STEM
John F. Kennedy Explains Why Artists & Poets Are Indispensable to American Democracy (October 26th, 1963) Open Culture
***TEACHING
Conceptions of Plagiarism and Problems in Academic Writing in a Changing Landscape of External Regulation Springer
The Hidden Costs of Active Learning Campus Technology
***STUDENT MEDIA
College papers find one way to adjust to digital: Print less often USA Today
***STUDENT MEDIA: TROUBLE IN KANSAS
Kansas college ends journalism classes prematurely: Adviser Suspended and copies of newspaper confiscated KSNT
Student Newspaper to print last edition despite suspension of journalism program Hutch Post
Community College student journalists say they are being squelched. The journalism professor who advises the paper has been suspended Inside Higher Ed
***STUDENT LIFE
Forget FOMO. In Digital Minimalism, It’s All About The Fear Of Burning Out Fast Company
On Campuses Far From China, Still Under Beijing’s Watchful Eye New York Times
UK student drops from ceiling to steal statistics exam Kentucky.com
Shifting Incomes for Young People Flowing Data
***ACADEMIC LIFE
Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English Inside Higher Ed
Why can writing a paper be such a pain? Jari Saramäki
Professor says she’s giving up a tenure-track job in the U.S. and taking her family back to Canada over racism directed at her Nicaraguan-born spouse Inside Higher Ed
Court says Catholic University was justified in punishing a professor for using his blog to criticize a graduate student by name Inside Higher Ed
