Links on Twitter: Trouble in the White House press pool, Dallas Morning News blurs edit and sales, YouTube slims down

Indy Star sold 1,157 four-day Thanksgiving subscriptions. Converted more than 200 customers to longer plan. http://tr.im/Gybu »

Church, meet state. Dallas Morning News sports and entertainment editors reporting to business-minded GMs. http://tr.im/Gx9O »

NY Times reporter finds TPM and Huffington Post in the White House press pool “troubling”http://tr.im/GwPk »

YouTube’s “Feather” feature strips down the site’s interface, and tosses out tools, to speed up playback. http://tr.im/GvPi »

Comcast gets 350 million views per month through video on demand. That’s TV. Not web. http://tr.im/GvIs »

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.