INDUSTRY NEWS

According to a recent report, more marketers are outsourcing their Facebook/Twitter accounts, with possible legal consequences.

An attorney for accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes said in court on Monday he will subpoena a Fox News reporter to reveal her source for a news story about the massacre.

Radio DJs are experiencing backlash over a prank call to Kate Middleton that may have led to the suicide of a nurse. But did they break any laws?

Police said two boys, ages 11 and 7, tried to rob and carjack a woman at gunpoint in Southeast Portland Saturday afternoon.

President Obama saw Psy perform at the annual "Christmas in Washington" benefit days after the "Gangnam Style" rapper apologized for anti-American lyrics he sang in 2004.

US aviation investigation board and the NTSB have both confirmed that famed singer Jenni Rivera died in Mexico plane crash.

Newsweek, which is folding its print edition after 80 years, announced layoffs on Thursday, according to a memo by Editor Tina Brown.

Random House, publisher of E. L. James's "Fifty Shades of Grey," is giving $5,000 bonuses to all of its employees.

Peeps has pulled from its holiday promotion an e-card that uses a derogatory name for a non-Jewish woman.

A Border Patrol agent in Southern California who shot and killed a mother of five after she hit him with her vehicle fired his gun 10 times from the hood of her car as he tried to get the woman to stop.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that e-readers like Amazon's Kindle track much more data than users realize.

Platform screen doors, widely used around the world, could have saved Ki-Suck Han's life. NYC's MTA says they're too costly.

An accused burglar is in the Parker County jail after he called 911, afraid of the homeowner who was holding him at gunpoint.

Lawyers for Hearst Corp. may be stepping up efforts to defend themselves in a class-action lawsuit brought on by a former intern at Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Ed Asner, the former "Mary Tyler Moore Show" actor, riled up conservative commentators like Fox's Sean Hannity over a pro-union cartoon called "Tax the Rich."

More than a dozen news outlets in Egypt are going on strike to protest the country's draft constitution, which they say does not protect the rights of journalists.

A new report published by the MPAA shows the economic impact of New York state's popular tax incentive program for film and TV producers.

Israel Keyes, the Alaskan man who confessed to seven murders before killing himself in a jail cell, told police that he traveled the country to find victims and buried caches of weapons, money and tools for disposing of bodies to use in future crimes.

The New York Post ran a cover photo of Ki Suk Han, a Queens man, seconds before his death on a subway track. Some journalism experts say the paper acted unethically.

Police in New York City are searching for the NYC subway pusher who hurled a man onto the subway track where a train struck and killed him.

Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times, sent a memo asking 30 non-union newsroom managers to accept buyouts.

A Coast Guardsman died Sunday after a "suspicious" boat rammed his small vessel off the coast of Southern California, an official said.

News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch announced that he will shut down the iPad-only newspaper The Daily. Why did it fail?

Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, is expected to head News Corp.'s newly created publishing company.

Almost one-half of all online users consider social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to be uncivil forms of communication.

Rep. Edward J. Markey has sent a letter to the FTC urging an investigation into advertisements by energy drinks such as 5-Hour Energy.

Supporters of "Two and a Half Men" star Angus T. Jones are saying the actor's now-infamous religious rant against his own show is not evidence that he's been brainwashed.

Jeff Zucker, the former president of NBCUniversal, will take over as president of CNN Worldwide in January. Can he turn the struggling cable news network around?

A record eight of the 16 dramas competing in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival were directed by women, underscoring longstanding gender disparity among Hollywood directors.