A look at things journalism could lose if Twitter dies: real-time feedback on stories, news outlets being publicly called out, DMs as a reporting tool, and more (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)

Casey Newton / Nieman Lab:
An interview with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: writers with subscribers should be paid more and thinking “Medium was going to shine” in journalism was a mistake  —  Sometimes as a reporter you write a piece that is critical of a company and the company decides not to talk to you again for a long while, or ever again.

Rachel Sharp / The Independent:
Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet  —  Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform

J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
A Birdwatch note adding context to Elon Musk’s tweet about Twitter’s revenue drop is gone; Musk called the community notes feature “awesome” earlier this week  —  Sign up for Semafor Tech, led by Reed Albergotti, to get our scoops and coverage of the industry’s biggest stories in your inbox twice a week.

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google signed News Showcase deals with Bloomberg Media and The Texas Tribune, but the feature is late to launch as other US outlets balk at the terms  —  The program, which pays publishers to feature their content, is almost a year behind its intended launch timeline in the U.S.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
OTI Lumionics, which is developing CPM Patterning display tech to let device makers avoid notches or cut-outs, raised a $55M Series B from LG, Samsung, and more  —  OTI Lumionics, an eye-catching startup out of Canada that has been working on display materials for device makers to create uninterrupted …

Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review:
Alphabet’s DeepMind unveils Sparrow, an AI chatbot that learns from human feedback and searches Google for information to support its claims  —  The lab trained a chatbot to learn from human feedback and search the internet for information to support its claims.