Links on Twitter: Spot.Us pitch for NYT story, maximizing revenue with AdSense, newspaper on plastic bags

New pitch at Spot.Us seeks reader funding for travel/science piece to be published in New York Times http://tr.im/roGv »

As @mogross observes, Pandora’s new freemium model is worth studying, though not easy to replicate for news http://tr.im/rpt2 »

Why don’t web reporters want to sell their own ads? ASSME asked them http://tr.im/rpvZ »

A wonderfully thorough guide to maximizing your revenue from Google AdSense http://tr.im/roK1 »

NYT couldn’t make it to #sunvalley, so they’re running tweets by rivals that could http://tr.im/rqbH Here: http://tr.im/rqbL »

Love this: Russian newspaper prints on plastic bags at grocery store http://tr.im/roKD »

Sarah Scire

Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up

Nonprofit news has seen an uptick in mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations. CalMatters CEO Neil Chase still says “I don’t think we’ve seen enough yet.”

Jonathan Stray

“Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it?

“For a long time, ‘objectivity’ packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement.”

Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam

Within days of visiting the pages — and without commenting on, liking, or following any of the material — Facebook’s algorithm recommended reams of other AI-generated content.