Links on Twitter: Exclusivity and community at the Financial Times, slideshow of Gawker Media’s offices, Google’s magazine newsstand

By Twitter Nov. 6, 2009, 6:24 p.m.

How exclusivity built a community at the FT’s finance blog, which gets 500k monthly uniques http://tr.im/EkF2 »

The new newsroom: Great slideshow of Gawker Media’s “steampunk” offices http://tr.im/EkLb (HT @carr2n) »

The new Chicago News Co-Op needs much more funding to cover costs. Editor paying himself $0 in first year http://tr.im/EkU3 »

In Twitter lists, @megangarber sees a “codification of the media’s increasing openness to…collaboration” http://tr.im/ElQk »

Off the record: TPM publisher Josh Marshall lunched with Obama and other journos today. Salmon was served http://tr.im/EmO4 »

Google creates a “newsstand” of magazine archives in its collection, including LIFE, New York, Mother Jones http://tr.im/EmSZ »

POSTED Nov. 6, 2009, 6:24 p.m.

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