Mediagazer: Rachel Maddow: ‘PolitiFact, you are fired!’ (Dylan Byers/Politico)

9:50 AM ET, January 26, 2012

Top News:

Popular TV host and son of New York City police commissioner accused of ‘raping young woman in her office’ — A popular television host whose father is the New York City Police Commissioner is under investigation for alleged rape. — Greg Kelly, son of Ray Kelly, denies any wrongdoing and says he is co-operating with officials.

Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Facebook, Google, Popbitch - live — Full coverage as executives from the social network, search giant and gossip website appear at the media standards inquiry — 12.02pm: Collins talks about Google's contentious new privacy policy, unveiled earlier this week.

Discussion: Hacking inquiry, Jon Slattery and @rosschawkins

Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:

ICO: Notifying Whittamore victims would be ‘phenomenal undertaking’ — Information commissioner rejects call from Hacked Off campaign, saying it would not be possible to notify victims identified by Operation Motorman but he is open to individual requests — Information commissioner …

Ian Burrell / The Independent:
Newspapers face wave of lawsuits over use of private eye Whittamore

Discussion: Jon Slattery and Press Gazette

BuzzFeed:

Next The Biggest Newspaper In The World Is ... The Daily Mail!? — The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has quietly unseated the New York Times to become the newspaper with the biggest online reach in the world, according to figures from the online tracking service comScore.

Discussion: Guardian, Noted, eMedia Vitals, PandoDaily, The Huffington Post, Future of Journalism, @buzzfeedben, The Next Web, NetNewsCheck Latest and The Wire

Steve Myers / Poynter:
Latest numbers indicate New York Times traffic is flat since paywall

Discussion: Guardian

@pressgazette: ABC: Mail Online down 5 per cent in December http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ... http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ...

Erik Wemple: How to generate Web traffic: Don't link

Paul Harris / @paulxharris: What is remarkable about Daily Mail as biggest paper online is having no links. Ever. Goes against advice of all new media experts

Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:

Unmasking A Digital Pirate On Amazon — A Kuwaiti national using fake names and selling others' copyrighted stories in the Kindle Store sheds light on black hat hacker forums—and the theft, taboo sex, and swindles festering in the recesses of Amazon. — Editor's Note — Want more on digital piracy?

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Netflix Bounces Back With a Q4 Beat, but Says Amazon Is Coming — First look at Netflix Q4 earnings: Earnings of $0.73 per share and revenue of $876 million. Wall Street was expecting around $0.54 a share and $857 million. — But at least as important are the company's subscriber numbers and guidance …

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Netflix streaming users now outnumber DVD subscribers 2:1

Discussion: Multichannel, Electronista, Company Town and Media Money …

Bill Carter / Media Decoder:

A Decline in Viewers for State of the Union Address — There were an estimated 37.8 million television viewers of President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the lowest total in his presidency. — The State of the Union address Tuesday night was seen by 37.8 million television viewers …

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
State of the Union: FNC #1, MSNBC #2, CNN #3

Discussion: FishbowlDC, 10,000 Words and Multichannel

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

New Facebook data: Be topical, ask questions, and tell jokes to win audience — Write about current affairs. Add in a little commentary (or a question). And, for the love of all that is holy, include a link. — Those are three of the takeaways from some new data that Facebook just released …

Discussion: The New York Observer, paidContent, Poynter, VentureBeat, JIMROMENESKO.COM, GigaOM, Future of Journalism, ZDNet and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

Jim Rainey / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Is Facebook ‘Subscribe’ for real? Booming new traffic explained

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Meet Deep Dive, the New York Times' experimental context engine and story explorer — Thinking about the sheer volume of information — stories, images, videos, data — available from The New York Times can evoke a simultaneous glee and terror. Skimming Times Wire gives you an idea …

Discussion: Poynter, The New York Observer and NYConvergence.com

News.me:

Getting the News - Zach Seward — This week we reached out to Zach Seward, editor of outreach and social media for the Wall Street Journal. In addition to his writing and editing at the Journal, Zach teaches a class on digital media at NYU. He's working at the intersection of social media and news every day.

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Future's Newsstand Transformation: 75,000 New Subscribers — UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes' Newsstand. — 104 days after Future debuted the titles with Newsstand's September 12 launch …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, One Man & His Blog, Future of Journalism and Private Frazer's Doomed …

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

The Future of BuzzFeed Looks Like a Newsier Facebook News Feed — BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti doesn't mind if people are a little bit confused about the site's mix of LOL-friendly content and, more recently, political scooplets. As a content operation that caters to social networks …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

JNSQ, An Independent Style Mag For iPad, Makes Its Public Debut — JNSQ, the first independent style magazine for the iPad, is making its public debut today. The app, created by former Beauty.com marketing manager Melissa Middleton and angel investor and stealth startup founder Fritz Lanman …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Rachel Maddow: ‘PolitiFact, you are fired!’

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Occupy Wall Street Journalist Arrests Cost U.S. Dearly In Latest Press Freedom Index — The targeting of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement has caused the United States to drop precipitously in a leading survey of press freedom. Reporters Without Borders' latest Press Freedom Index …

Discussion: Jcstearns, @jackshafer, @brianstelter and New York Magazine