Links on Twitter: Spot.us, newspaper stocks, blog war

Six months after launching Spot.us for crowdfunded news, @digidave reflects on his successes and failures http://tr.im/l9iQ »

Checking in with newspaper stocks: Hey, look, they’re way up! http://tr.im/l9be »

“France is set to introduce the world’s most draconian laws against internet piracy” http://tr.im/laDt »

AdBlock Plus, friend of readers but scourge of advertisers and publishers, seeks a détente of sorts http://tr.im/l9x7 »

Blog war: The Double X, new Slate spinoff for women, unloads on rival Jezebel http://tr.im/l8lm »

Andrew Deck

Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom

The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories.

Neel Dhanesha

Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class

“I only make unimportant things now, but it’s all the unimportant things that really make up our lives.”

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”