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Mobile technology appears to be increasing the public appetite for news but it's far from clear whether the news industry will profit from that, a study issued Monday concluded.

News of the tragic death of Whitney Houston this weekend didn't appear first on television or mainstream news sites.

How will the voluntary buyouts announced by The Post this week — the fifth such round in the past nine years — affect the quality of the publication?

Authorities say a former CIA agent who has claimed he helped interrogate a top suspected terrorist has been charged with leaking classified secrets about fellow officers to the media....

Over the past few months, I have become increasingly interested in #Twitter with the help of my friend, Julie Hunt (@juliebhunt) of . Like (@Univ_of_Oregon) #Prof. Kyu Ho Youm (@Marshall Youm), I use Twitter to share, learn, and keep virtual note cards. As you've immediately noticed, I (@BenKerschberg) am writing this short piece in a ...

Although Facebook dominates Twitter in many areas, it lost to its smaller competitor in at least one metric for 2011. Twitter was discussed in about 50 percent of media coverage regarding social networks this year, while Facebook was only talked about 45 percent of the time, according to HighBeam Research. The report did not even bother mentioning Google+.

Phone-hacking was widespread at Piers Morgan's Daily Mirror, a former columnist at the tabloid said on Wednesday, as an official inquiry unearthed further evidence of the illegal practice in the British press.

Ten NBC-owned television stations will team with nonprofit news outlets in an attempt to beef up their enterprise and analytical reporting.

NPR Executive Editor Dick Meyer is leaving the public radio network to lead BBC News America. Meyer’s appointment at BBC was announced Wednesday. Since 2009, he has been NPR’s executive editor, managing all news operations. His resignation follows the departure of NPR’s top news executive Ellen Weiss in January.

Chelsea Clinton is going to work for NBC News. The network said Monday that it has hired the 31-year-old Clinton to work on projects for the "NBC Nightly News" and Brian Williams' newsmagazine "Rock Center." She will do projects in the "Making a Difference" series, generally positive stories about individuals and companies.