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

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 »

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.