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SEJournal continues the expansion of its masthead this year with three new column co-editors. Photojournalists Andrew Cullen and Jonathan Hale will take on the editorship of EJ InSight, which focuses on visual journalism. Freelance writer Elyse Hauser will join the staff to co-edit the Freelance File column. Here’s more on them and other news from the SEJournal team.

In the mini-series “Defending Jacob,” murder genes were used as evidence in criminal cases. A murder gene is a term used for a link or similarity in the genes of criminals to see if there is something in their DNA that made them more likely to kill. But do these really exist? To what extent...