Mediagazer: Google explains why Adweek ‘survey wall’ stopped Gawker editorial director (Steve Myers/Poynter)

8:40 AM ET, May 16, 2012

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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

ESPN: No talks yet about Apple TV authentication — As the most powerful programming brand on cable television, you'd expect that ESPN would spend the day of its upfront presentation bolstering its still-very-lucrative linear television business. — But the Disney-owned sports channel spent …

Bloomberg:

Disney's ESPN in Talks With Apple To Expand Digital Access — Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple Inc. (AAPL) about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.

Discussion: CNET, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, parislemon and Business Insider

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Expands: Adds Audio From NPR, Public Radio & SoundCloud; Introduces Japanese Version — “Social magazine” Flipboard may have to think up a new tagline for itself, as tonight the company is rolling out an update which greatly expands its focus beyond text-based content to also include audio.

Discussion: Techland, Media News, NetNewsCheck Latest, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Next Web

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

New USA Today publisher Larry Kramer gets to apply his theories about newsroom evolution — New USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer hasn't had a newspaper job since 1991, when he left the San Francisco Examiner to found DataSport, and eventually MarketWatch. But he's thought about newspapers ever since …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Daily Beast, BtoB Magazine, The Wrap, Gannett Blog, Adweek, Politico, paidContent, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Gannett Company, Inc and @ckrewson

Nancy Messieh / The Next Web:

Storify working with Middle Eastern initiative Taghreedat to translate the site into Arabic — Storify has recently announced that it will be working in cooperation with Taghreedat to translate its interface into Arabic. We caught up with Taghreedat co-founder Mina Takla to find out more about the project.

Ned Simons / Huffington Post UK:

Jack Straw Tells Leveson Rupert Murdoch Likes To ‘Play’ With Political Leaders — Rupert Murdoch liked to “play with political leaders” by tempting them with the possibility that his newspapers would support them, Jack Straw has said. Giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press ethics …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, @lisaocarroll and @hackinginquiry

Richard Sandomir / Media Decoder:

ESPN Doubles Up on ‘30 for 30’ Documentary Series — ESPN's faith in sports documentaries is so deep that on Tuesday it will announce a second go-round for its “30 for 30” series, which made its debut in the fall of 2009. — The first 30 films — produced by independent filmmakers as diverse …

Discussion: Bleacher Report, Grantland, The Wrap, Deadspin and SBNation.com

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Google explains why Adweek ‘survey wall’ stopped Gawker editorial director — Scott Kidder, director of editorial operations at Gawker Media, said it was “desperate” that Adweek's website tried to get him to share a story on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ before he had read it.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Nieman Journalism Lab, AllThingsD, Scott Kidder and State of the Fourth Estate

Matthew Fleischer / FishbowlLA:

Exclusive: LA Times Magazine is Shutting Down — Nearly three years after the LA Times Magazine was removed from control of the business end of the paper and put back under the LA Times' editorial umbrella, the monthly pub is being shut down. FishbowlLA spoke with the mag's editor …

Discussion: Poynter, Los Angeles Times and LA Observed

Jonathan Stray:

The hard part of solution journalism is agreeing on the problems — The only editorial mantra that ever made any sense to me comes from the Voice of San Diego new reporter guidelines: “Our bent: Reform. Things can always be better.” It's been said that the role of journalism is to inform …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Video reveal: BBC super-sizing “the first truly digital Olympics” — NBC may have been criticised for not streaming enough Olympics Games - but, in the U.K., the BBC plans to stream all 2,500 hours of this summer's London 2012 events (up from 1,500 in 2008), in what it's calling “the first proper digital Olympics.”

Discussion: bbc.co.uk and Guardian

Rembert Browne / Grantland:

JaVale McGee's Crusade for Investigative Journalism and Non-Speculative, Facts-Based Reporting — On the JaVale McGee front, news broke today that a bill has been filed in the Philippines House of Representatives to naturalize McGee as a citizen. Among other things, this would make him eligible …

Discussion: SBNation.com

Press Association:

Angry Rebekah Brooks attacks police and prosecutors over charges — Rebekah Brooks angrily attacked police and prosecutors for dragging her friends and family into the phone hacking scandal tonight as she said she was “baffled” to face charges. The former News International chief executive …

Discussion: cps.gov.uk, New York Magazine and Guardian