diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/newsbeuter/dev.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/newsbeuter/dev.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..df98e7568684
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/feedreaders/newsbeuter/dev.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, sqlite, curl, pkgconfig, libxml2, stfl, json-c-0-11, ncurses
+, gettext, libiconvOrEmpty, makeWrapper, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "newsbeuter-dev-20131103";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/archive/8abefa3efb5e6d70c32bac9e068248e98616d6ec.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1pfkr4adm7rxwq44hpxwblw6gg8vd0frsi6szvhmzkpn5qmnpwpg";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs
+    # use gettext instead of libintlOrEmpty so we have access to the msgfmt
+    # command
+    = [ pkgconfig sqlite curl libxml2 stfl json-c-0-11 ncurses gettext perl ]
+      ++ libiconvOrEmpty
+      ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin makeWrapper;
+
+  preBuild = ''
+    sed -i -e 104,108d config.sh
+    sed -i "1 s%^.*$%#!${perl}/bin/perl%" txt2h.pl
+    export LDFLAGS=-lncursesw
+  '';
+
+  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE =
+    "-I${libxml2}/include/libxml2 -I${json-c-0-11}/include/json-c";
+
+  NIX_LDFLAGS = "-lsqlite3 -lcurl -lxml2 -lstfl -ljson";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    DESTDIR=$out prefix=\"\" make install
+  '' + stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin ''
+    for prog in $out/bin/*; do
+      wrapProgram "$prog" --prefix DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${stfl}/lib"
+    done
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage    = http://www.newsbeuter.org;
+    description = "An open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals";
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
+    license     = licenses.mit;
+    platforms   = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/json-c/0.11.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/json-c/0.11.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..029921ee08c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/json-c/0.11.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "json-c-0.11";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url    = "https://github.com/json-c/json-c/archive/json-c-0.11-20130402.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1m8fy7lbahv1r7yqbhw4pl057sxmmgjihm1fsvc3h66710s2i24r";
+  };
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "A JSON implementation in C";
+    homepage    = https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
+    platforms   = platforms.unix;
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to
+      easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings
+      and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON
+      objects.
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9a4a085ead35..e05f7647d2e2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1409,6 +1409,8 @@ let
 
   newsbeuter = callPackage ../applications/networking/feedreaders/newsbeuter { };
 
+  newsbeuter-dev = callPackage ../applications/networking/feedreaders/newsbeuter/dev.nix { };
+
   ngrok = callPackage ../tools/misc/ngrok { };
 
   mpack = callPackage ../tools/networking/mpack { };
@@ -4574,7 +4576,9 @@ let
 
   json_glib = callPackage ../development/libraries/json-glib { };
 
-  json_c = callPackage ../development/libraries/json-c { };
+  json-c-0-9 = callPackage ../development/libraries/json-c { };
+  json-c-0-11 = callPackage ../development/libraries/json-c/0.11.nix { };
+  json_c = json-c-0-9;
 
   jsoncpp = callPackage ../development/libraries/jsoncpp { };