Links on Twitter: Average size of online staff at newspapers, Austin American-Statesman toys with storystreaming, MinnPost takes real-time advertising out of beta

Average size of online staff: 11 at large-circulation newspapers, 5 at mid-sized, and 2 at small papers http://tr.im/xN5M »

On the frontier of storystreaming: How the Austin American-Statesman gathered user photos with Posterous http://tr.im/xOdK »

Why @AngelaGrant stopped branding herself as a multimedia specialist in favor of all-purpose journalist http://tr.im/xP0N »

MinnPost takes its real-time advertising platform out of beta http://tr.im/xOBu We raved about it here http://tr.im/pKMs »

User-generated content? Hyperlocal news? An Amish paper has been doing it for decades (Twitter now, too) http://tr.im/xNnS »

Pretty cool wall of headlines at the new offices of Edelman, the PR firm http://tr.im/xN6v »

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.