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SOUTH BEND -- John Quinn thinks reading news on a tablet would be more enjoyable and engaging if it were more like a computer game. A game where the user earns points and wins rewards for rating news articles, sharing content and commenting on stories....

The media can't get enough of a riveting crime story. On Monday alone, news organizations closely followed the discovery of three missing women in Cleveland, the observations for Chief Judge Belvin Perry Jr. on the Casey Anthony trial, and the latest...

May 07 (TheWrap.com) - The Onion, America's finest fake news organization, was the latest victim of cyber hacking on Monday when the Syrian Electronic Army took over its Twitter account to tweet a slew of anti-Israel messages. Some of the tweets read:...

May 07 (TheWrap.com) - Jeff Zucker's four-month tenure running CNN has been marred by failed programming experiments and embarrassing reporting gaffes. But he has one weapon that he's hoping will turn CNN's fortunes around: The morning news show,...

SEOUL, May 5 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Sunday it had no intention of using an American it sentenced to hard labour for 15 years as a bargaining chip in talks with the United States. North Korea sentenced Kenneth Bae, a Korean American who travelled...

In 1789, when the first Congress met, one of its acts was to order the secretary of state to "publish all bills, orders, resolutions, and votes" in newspapers. The idea was simple: Use the press to keep the public fully informed of government business....

BEIRUT — Syrian opposition groups charged Friday that government forces were continuing to round up people in a village near Syria's Mediterranean coast where an alleged massacre left scores dead. A major opposition umbrella group, known as the...

May 03 (TheWrap.com) - Howard Kurtz, who parted ways with The Daily Beast on Thursday after erroneous comments in a story about gay NBA player Jason Collins, still has his job as host of CNN's "Reliable Sources" -- at least for the time being, the cable...

After the coffee. Before a long morning of earnings calls. The Skinny: I got through the season finale of "The Following" last night. It wasn't easy. Fortunately,  afterward I watched the premiere of Comedy Central's "Inside Amy," which was a tad...

QUITO, April 30 (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa will name a new oil minister and a new finance minister next week, a high-ranking government official told the state-run news agency Andes on Tuesday. Oil Minister Wilson Pastor will be...

Bangladeshi government officials and Western apparel companies have pledged to provide financial assistance to the families of more than 1,300 people killed or injured in the collapse of the Rana Plaza building last week. At least 388 people were killed...

Ukraine violated the rights of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by jailing her for political reasons during her trial in 2011, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday. Tymoshenko, an opponent of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich's...