Mediagazer: Amazon Expands Kindle Owners' Lending Library To Self-Published Authors (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

Guardian:

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

Leonora LaPeter Anton / St. Petersburg Times:

‘60 Minutes’ piece on homelessness spawns viral misquote — A recent 60 Minutes piece on homeless families in Central Florida living in their cars generated lots of buzz nationally. — The compelling piece, which ran Nov. 27, explored the lives of two teens living with their father …

‘60 Minutes’ homelessness statistic was apparently too good to check — A “60 Minutes” story that aired on Nov. 27 said that a third of homeless families without any kind of shelter live in Florida. That includes people who live in cars, under bridges, in parks.

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, Consumer Reports News, Fortune, Engadget and FT Tech Hub, more at Techmeme »

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, Felix Salmon and Media Decoder, Thanks:jaredbkeller

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.

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: FishbowlNY, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, The Caucus and Poynter

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:

Justice Department Confirms E-Book Probe — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department confirmed Wednesday that it is conducting an antitrust investigation into the pricing of electronic books, the latest antitrust watchdog to probe whether there was improper collusion by publishers and Apple Inc. to prevent discounting.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, GalleyCat, Consumer Reports News, Shelly Palmer Digital Living, Hillicon Valley, MacRumors and Tech Trader Daily

Discussion: The FJP, The Verge, CNET News and The New York Observer, more at Techmeme »

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

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Google's News Reader — Now Called Currents — Finally Coming — I was wrong about the rollout timing — I had reported mid-November (sorry, Sean!) — but Google's entrant into the news reader space is finally set to launch as early as tomorrow. Sources said the product …

Discussion: CNET News, Softpedia News and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

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

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

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: Mac Prices Australia, iPhone in Canada Blog, 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

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

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.

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: 10,000 Words, The Not-So Private Parts, Poynter, The Daily Weekly, Associated Press, FOI FYI, Media News and Seattle Weekly