Mediagazer: Citizen news: A democratic addition to political journalism (Herbert J. Gans/Nieman Journalism Lab)

7:25 AM ET, November 29, 2012

Top News:

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

What you need to know about today's Leveson report on phone hacking, press regulation — The report of Lord Justice Brian Leveson's 16-month-long inquiry into “the culture, practices and ethics” of the British press has been released to select people this week, and will be made public today.

Discussion: Guardian, CNN, Business Insider, Charlie Beckett and Hollywood Reporter

Emily Bell / Guardian:

The Leveson inquiry is irrelevant to 21st-century journalism — The judge's findings will address the nefarious behaviour of newspapers but not the vast array of media on the internet — Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the internet abhors geo-specific regulation.

Discussion: Charlie Beckett, TheMediaBriefing, Big News Network.com, New York Times, BBC and Telegraph

Guardian:
Leveson D-day dawns as coalition split over press regulation

Discussion: BBC, Jon Slattery and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Vikram Dodd / Guardian: Leveson warns Metropolitan police it faces criticism

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: the essential guide

Discussion: New York Times, @gallaghereditor, The Daily Beast and Guardian

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Problems With a Reporter's Facebook Posts, and a Possible Solution — Start with a reporter who likes to be responsive to readers, is spontaneous and impressionistic in her personal writing style, and not especially attuned to how casual comments may be received in a highly politicized setting.

Discussion: Poynter, The Electronic Intifada, WWD Media Headlines, New York Magazine, @smalera, @jeffjohnroberts, Guardian, @ryanlawler, The Huffington Post, @anthonyha and Pressing Issues

John Cook / Gawker:

New York Times Bureau Chief Isn't Chief of Her Own Tweets — Jodi Rudoren, the weirdly named Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, likes to keep in touch with friends and readers via the social networking web sites Twitter.com and Facebook.com, as literate human beings in the developed world are often wont to do these days.

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Jeff Bewkes Has No Comment On Zucker, But Says CNN Will Be ‘One Of The Fastest Growing Networks’ — Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes declined to talk about the rumors of Jeff Zucker taking over CNN during a discussion at the Business insider Ignition conference Wednesday afternoon, only saying …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY and New York Times

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Dear Jeff: a Handy List of Contradictory, Surefire Paths to Success at CNN — Try to imagine Jeff Zucker's inbox on Wednesday morning. — Along with all the e-mails from friends and former colleagues asking “Is it true?” — namely that he is the choice to run CNN Worldwide …

Discussion: The Wrap, BtoB Magazine, Top Digital Journal News, The Daily Caller and Los Angeles Times

Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:

Google Fires a Rare Public Salvo Over Aggregators — BERLIN — Google's imprint on daily life is hard to ignore in Europe, where it reportedly has 93 percent of the Internet search market, more than in the United States. Yet when it comes to its lobbying of lawmakers, Google prefers a low profile.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Agence France Presse and TechCrunch

Madeline Chambers / Reuters: German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

Researchers mine 2.5M news articles to prove what we already know — A group of British researchers has published the results of a data mining experiment that analyzed nearly 2.5 million articles from 498 newspapers on criteria such as topic selection, writing style and sensationalism …

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Could Yahoo's move away from media be AOL's big chance? — Jon Miller, ex-CEO of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo's former interim CEO, think Yahoo's new direction under Marissa Mayer could open up an opportunity for AOL. — NEW YORK—Yahoo's new direction under CEO Marissa Mayer …

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

How can we build a future of post-industrial journalism? — There's been a lot written over the past few years about the future of the news industry — how the rise of the web and social media have disrupted it, and how traditional players like the New York Times and others can recover …

Discussion: Poynter, Freedom of the Prez and The Buttry Diary

Herbert J. Gans / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Citizen news: A democratic addition to political journalism — Journalism and the news media are supposed to be a bulwark for democracy. But through their history, they have more often served as messengers for the high-level public officials whose actions and pronouncements they report regularly.

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Atavist begins offering in-app subscriptions to its stories — Atavist, publisher of both technology and ebook-esque stories, is taking a cue from the world of magazines and newspapers by getting into the subscription business. — Starting today, readers can sign up for a three-month subscription …

David Lieberman / Deadline.com:

MPAA's Chris Dodd Says Facebook Rumor Illustrates Need For Copyright Protection — If you're on Facebook, you've probably seen a statement loaded with legalese that users post hoping to create a copyright protection for their content. It's based on a belief that the social network company changed …

Discussion: Anil Dash, Plagiarism Today and The Huffington Post

Olivia Solon / Wired.co.uk:

Net-a-Porter CEO: It's no secret we're launching a major fashion magazine — Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter is planning to launch a printed magazine within the next 12 months, according to CEO Mark Sebba, speaking at the Business Leaders Network's Making it Mobile event.

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Reporters Without Borders launches site for censored content — Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has launched a website on which it says it will ‘post content that has been censored or banned or has given rise to reprisals against its creator’ — Copyright: By rpongsaj on Flickr.

Discussion: Reporters Without Borders

Los Angeles Times:

‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker sentenced to death in Egypt — The California man behind the “Innocence of Muslims” movie that triggered violence in the Middle East was sentenced to death Wednesday in absentia in an Egyptian court. — Mark Basseley Youssef was among the seven Egyptian Coptic Christians …

Discussion: worldnews.nbcnews.com, Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, L.A. NOW, E! Online, Media Law Prof Blog, The Wrap, Associated Press and Boing Boing

Ella Delany / The Daily Beast:

The Victims of the Penguin & Random House Merger: Literary Agents — The middlemen between writers and publishers are concerned they'll be squeezed by the upcoming merger of giants Penguin and Random House. — Literary agents are the middlemen between writers and publishing houses.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Publishing will expand to Europe; Kirshbaum to head U.S. operations — Amazon is expanding its original publishing efforts to Europe and is also shaking up its publishing division's structure, Publishing VP Jeff Belle announced in a letter to literary agents Wednesday (the full letter is below).

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com and Publishers Lunch

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Song writers remind Pandora: 'You're profiting from our songs' — Ahead of a congressional hearing about royalty rates paid by Web radio services, a group of songwriters sing their famous hits and notes that without them, Pandora and Web radio have nothing to sell.

Discussion: Hillicon Valley