INDUSTRY NEWS

Mel Greig and Michael Christian, two radio DJs who prank called the hospital where Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was being treated, may not face charges.

IBTimes looks at some of the worst media mishaps of the year, including screw-ups from CNN, ABC, FOX, AP, the New York Post and IBTimes itself.

The White House's easy-to-abuse "We the People" online petitioning system has turned a First Amendment right into a crowd-sourced circus.

Youtube combats view count inflation by deleting fake views from popular videos.

A young foster child allegely discovered a gun in the teddy bear gift set she received for Christmas that was donated by a church.

An online petition is calling on Google to remove the app "Make Me Asian" from its Google Play website.

The suburban newspaper continues to take heat from fellow journalists after publishing the names and addresses of permit owners.

Some colleges are using online "scrubbers" such as BrandYourself to help students improve their Google search results.

The Journal News in suburban New York has started a media firestorm by publishing a database of pistol-permit owners.

The former Atlanta Braves star center fielder was arrested Christmas day after allegedly attacking his wife and threatening to kill her.

According to MediaFinder, 82 magazines stopped printing in 2012, including such storied titles as Newsweek. IBTimes lists the most notable closures of the year.

Amazon announced it will create six comedy pilots courtesy of its new Amazon Studios. Is this the beginning of Hollywood Northwest?

A man expecting an iPad Mini be bought for his daughter catches a UPS delivery man stealing it on surveillance video.

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced a "radical" plan to create porn filters for Internet users, but free-speech proponents worry about government overreach.

An internal investigation into the BBC's handling of the Jimmy Savile child-sex scandal found no evidence of a cover up but plenty of evidence for incompetence.

Time magazine named Barack Obama its Person of the Year for 2012, but in an age of constant listicles, how much does this brand-defining "Best Of" still matter?

The gunman in a murder suicide shooting that occurred on Tuesday was released from jail on domestic violence charges just before killing his ex-girlfriend, her sister, her sister's husband, and then himself.

The cross-generational concert "12-12-12" raised $30 million in ticket sales for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Memorabilia is now being auctioned off to raise addition funds.

"Rodham," a screenplay about the early life of Hillary Clinton, landed on the annual Hollywood "Black List," a survey of the year's best unproduced scripts.

Nielsen Holdings, the TV ratings giant, announced Tuesday that it will acquire its radio counterpart, Arbitron, for $1.26 billion. The deal faces antitrust hurdles.

A Colorado police dispatcher listened helplessly early Tuesday as a man apparently killed at least one other person and then himself, part of an apparent murder-suicide that left four people dead.

NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and three others escaped their captors in Syria, where they had been held for five days.

Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" took in $84.8 million at the box office this weekend. It's being reported as a "December record," but that's not the whole story.

Gerard Depardieu recently announced that he is moving from France to Belgium, in part to escape the French Socialist government's 75 percent tax rate. Is this a new age of tax migration?

In the wake of Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., White House spokesman Jay Carney said now is not the time to discuss gun control, but across the Internet, that's exactly what people are doing.

Memphis Police Officer Martoiya Lang, a mother of four, died in the shooting. Police Officer William Vromah was injured and is in stable condition at Regional Medical Center.

A Forbes reporter had a Twitter argument today with Slate magazine's editor-in-chief, underscoring the contentiousness of the ongoing paywall debate.

In response to Pamela Geller's controversial pro-Israel "Defeat Jihad" ad campaign, CAIR-Chicago has launched its own campaign about the meaning of the word jihad.

More than a dozen people, including 18 elementary school children, were shot and killed in Newtown, Conn., on Friday morning, federal and state sources told ABC News.