Mass Media

SOUTH BEND — WSBT’s friends on Facebook uploaded a dozen photos of their children building snow forts and snow tunnels. But local firefighters have a warning for parents. For Don Wilverton, sledding down hills is what winter is all about....

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Malaysian newspaper has apologized for printing a caricature of Japanese cartoon superhero Ultraman comically trying to outrun a tsunami. Malaysians reacted with a tirade of anger after the Malay-language Berita...

SHUEYVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Facebook has apologized to an Iowa birth photographer for disabling her account over photos it initially deemed inappropriate. The company wrote in a Thursday e-mail to Laura Eckert that it had restored her account and that...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — ESPN's 3-D network will begin broadcasting content 24 hours a day next month. Since the channel launched in June, it has been on the air only for scheduled events. ESPN said Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show...

SOUTH BEND -- “Catholics vs. Cupcakes.” If the South Florida Sun-Sentinel headline constituted the only postgame payoff from Notre Dame’s 33-17 Sun Bowl squashing of Miami, Friday in El Paso, Texas, most Irish fans could probably...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court says the Federal Communications Commission cannot fine broadcasters for showing a woman's nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of "NYPD Blue." The 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan decided Tuesday to...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Betty White joked that Facebook seemed like a huge waste of time during her wildly successful hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live." Turns out she wasn't kidding.   The actress says that was a line written for her and she...

MAPLE RIDGE, British Columbia (AP) — Canada's federal police force has charged two teenage boys after a girl was gang raped at a party and photos of the incident were put on Facebook. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Peter Thiessen said Thursday...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan budget director John Nixon doesn't have a Twitter account, but like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, he's attracted a tweeter pretending to be him. The FakeJohnNixon Twitter account started up last week and already has...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican next week is expected to unveil the latest installment in its social media transformation, a Facebook page dedicated to the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II. Vatican officials have told The Associated...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane was an avid poster on a white supremacist Internet forum, where he referenced bomb-making and alluded to attacking anti-racist demonstrators, a...

NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube is partnering with universities to launch a new media program series for aspiring digital filmmakers. The video-sharing website announced Thursday it would launch the YouTube Creator Institute with the University of...