Good morning. 
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of twenty-nine. Sunrise is 6:34 AM and sunset 5:40 PM, for 11h 06m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred fifth day.
On this day in 1815, Napoleon escapes from exile on Elba.
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Keri Blakinger reports Newsrooms Rethink a Crime Reporting Staple: The Mugshot:
Online mugshot galleries, where news organizations post rows of people who were arrested, once seemed like an easy moneymaker for struggling newsrooms: Each reader click to the next image translated to more page views and an opportunity for more advertising dollars.
But faced with questions about the lasting impact of putting these photos on the internet, where they live forever, media outlets are increasingly doing away with the galleries of people on the worst days of their lives.
Last month, the Houston Chronicle became the latest major paper to take that plunge. At an all-hands staff meeting, the paper’s editors announced their decision to stop posting slideshows of people who have been arrested but not convicted—and who are still presumed innocent under law.
“Mugshot slideshows whose primary purpose is to generate page views will no longer appear on our websites,” Mark Lorando, a managing editor at the Chronicle, later explained in an email to The Marshall Project. “We’re better than that.”
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A 2016 survey of 74 papers by Univision’s Fusion channel found that 40 percent published mugshot galleries. There’s no comprehensive tracking of such media practices so it’s not clear how much that figure has changed.
Sam Gringlas reports With An Election On The Horizon, Older Adults Get Help Spotting Fake News:
At the Schweinhaut Senior Center in suburban Maryland, about a dozen seniors gather around iPads and laptops, investigating a suspicious meme of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Plastered over her image, in big, white block letters, a caption reads:
“California will receive 13 extra seats in Congress by including 10 million illegal aliens in the 2020 U.S. Census.”
The seniors are participating in a workshop sponsored by the nonprofit Senior Planet called “How to Spot Fake News.” As instructed, they pull up a reputable fact-checking site like Snopes or FactCheck.org, and within a few minutes, identify the meme is peddling fake news.
“It’s right there!” 86-year-old Marlene Cianci tells the class. “Just a two-step thing and there it was!”
Researchers say classes like this one should be more widely offered, especially with the 2020 election approaching.
After Russia launched a massive disinformation campaign on social media during the 2016 election, many middle and high schools rushed to add digital literacy courses to their curriculums. Now, U.S. officials say Russia is again interfering in U.S. elections. But experts say older adults may struggle the most with identifying fake news, and classes designed to teach these skills to seniors aren’t yet common nationwide.
A recent study suggests these classes could be increasingly important. Researchers at Princeton and New York University found that Facebook users 65 and over posted seven times as many articles from fake news websites, compared to adults under 29.