Mediagazer: Who Are The Most-Read Authors On The Web? (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

Civic journalism 2.0: The Guardian and NYU launch a “citizens agenda” for 2012 — Last August, Jay Rosen published a blog post arguing for “a citizens agenda in campaign coverage.” The idea, he wrote, “is to learn from voters what those voters want the campaign to be about …

Discussion: Poynter

The citizens agenda: making election coverage more useful — We invite you to help refresh the media's tired templates of campaign coverage to address issues people really care about — In a few weeks, the Iowa caucuses will officially kick off the 2012 campaign for president and we'll begin …

Discussion: Pressthink

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:

Verizon And RedBox Planning Major Partnership For Early 2012 Launch — Yesterday, it was reported that Verizon was planning a Netflix competitor and in talks with various content producers to provide the streams and downloads. TechCrunch has obtained additional information on this story …

Discussion: rbr.com, Gizmodo, Fortune, Engadget and FT Tech Hub, more at Techmeme »

Cahal Milmo / The Independent:

Brooks' links to Clifford payment cast doubt on her hacking denials — Rebekah Brooks personally negotiated a £680,000 out-of-court settlement with the publicity guru Max Clifford which led to his withdrawing a potentially explosive phone-hacking claim against the News of the World, News International (NI) revealed last night.

Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:

James Murdoch: Brooks did ‘not seek authorisation’ for Clifford settlement — A letter from James Murdoch, among documents published by the culture, media and sport committee, states he did not authorise a £400,000 payment to Max Clifford to settle a phone-hacking claim

Discussion: Press Gazette and Journalism.co.uk

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

New York Times Election 2012 iPhone app launches — Big, rapid change can be hard to implement at any organization the size of The New York Times, so I appreciate how the talented journalists, designers, and coders within the Times use offshoot or ancillary projects to try out new features or ways of approaching the news.

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, Poynter, The Caucus and Business Insider

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Who Are The Most-Read Authors On The Web? — Which authors online keep readers coming back for more? Read It Later delved into its data to find which articles its 4 million users saved to “Read Later” most often, which authors have the highest return rate and how long-form content performs.

Read It Later Blog:

Who Are the ‘Most-Read’ Authors? — Saving a story for later can tell us a lot about loyalty, longevity and quality—and it changes the way we think about the most popular stories on the web — If we're to believe Woody Allen, “80 percent of success is showing up.”

Discussion: Poynter and Media Decoder, Thanks:jaredbkeller

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Thurlbeck rounds on NoW executives in new evidence — Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has told MPs about a culture of “suppression” and “paralysis” at the News of the World which he says had “catastrophic consequences” for the paper.

Discussion: Press Gazette

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk

Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

The E-book Investigations: Are Publishers And Apple Breaking The Law? — It's been a week to forget for publishers after both the Justice Department and the European Commission announced investigations into e-book pricing tactics. Meanwhile, dozens of law firms are steaming ahead …

Discussion: The FJP, CNET News, The Verge and Hillicon Valley

Nadia White / MediaShift:

Nobel Prize Winner on How New Media is Democratizing Science News — MediaShift's science journalism coverage is sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School, which offers an innovative specialized M.A. for experienced journalists who want to cover science, business, arts or politics in a sophisticated, nuanced manner.

Discussion: Editors Weblog

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Expands Kindle Owners' Lending Library To Self-Published Authors — As rumored, self-published authors who agree to make their e-books available exclusively on Kindle for 90 days are now eligible to include their books in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library and have the chance to make extra money.

Discussion: Business Wire, PC Magazine, TechCrunch and TeleRead, more at Techmeme »

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

A Y Combinator for public media: PRX, Knight launch a $2.5 million accelerator — A new Public Media Accelerator, funded by $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, will rapidly fund disruptive ideas in public media, PRX announced today. — The final details are still being worked out …

Discussion: rbr.com

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:UK:

Apple TV Streaming Quietly Goes International — Back in August, we wrote about how Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had started to offer U.S.-based users of its Apple TV device the ability to stream shows purchased from iTunes via Apple's iCloud. Now it looks as if that service is becoming available internationally.

Discussion: 9to5Mac, Mac Prices Australia, MobileSyrup.com, GigaOM and Softpedia News, more at Techmeme »

Tom Stites / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Taking stock of the state of web journalism — Editor's note: Tom Stites had a long career in newspapers, editing Pulitzer-winning projects and working at top newspapers like The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In recent years, he's shifted his emphasis …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Seacrest Has Options, and One May Be ‘Today’ Show Anchor — Imagine, at 36, trying to decide which jobs to take next, if the possibilities included the “Today” show, prime time specials, “American Idol” and the expansion of your production company. — That is the enviable position Ryan …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and TVNewser

Greg Sandoval / CNET News:

Vevo, MTV hook up again for music videos — Singer Adam Lambert performs during Vevo's 2009 launch party. — Vevo, the 2-year-old online music video service, will once again make its clips available on MTV.com and other MTV-owned sites, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

James Murdoch's lawyers confirm Tom Watson was put under surveillance — News Corp lawyers say three NI staff were involved in setting up monitoring, but it is not appropriate to name them — James Murdoch's lawyers have confirmed that Labour MP Tom Watson was put under surveillance for a week in 2009 …

Discussion: Press Gazette and The New Yorker

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

If we are all journalists, should we all be protected? — The bloggers vs. journalists debate may seem like something that's of interest only to media-industry insiders, but it has very real implications for society when it comes to protecting freedom of information, as the case of blogger Crystal Cox has highlighted this week.

Discussion: FOI FYI, Medacity, Media News, CNET News, The Daily Weekly and Seattle Weekly

Melissa Bell / Washington Post:

Drone journalism? The idea could fly in the U.S. — This January, the FAA will be proposing new rules on the use of drones in American airspace — a possibility some see as positively Orwellian, but others, including some journalists, see as an opportunity.

Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The AP brings a quasi-competitor into the fold — In 2008, eight Ohio newspapers, upset with what they saw as high prices charged by the Associated Press, rebelled against the wire to form their own statewide news-sharing service, the Ohio News Organization.

Discussion: Editors Weblog