Jevin West won a $50,000 award from the Knight Foundation's News Challenge, along with collaborator Carl Bergstrom, for their work on Calling BS in the Age of Fake News. They will develop a set of tools for the general public, high school students, and journalists to combat misinformation — with a particular emphasis on data, visualizations and statistics. ... In addition, he gave a keynote at JCDL WOSP and two invited talks at NetSci. ... Annie Searle’s June column for ASA News & Notes is titled, “The Limits of Presidential Power.” She has written for The Risk Universe magazine for over five years, and for the final issue of the magazine this month she wrote, “Executives and Risk: What Your Teams Won’t Tell You”