Media

Facebook announced on Thursday it is taking steps to combat the spread of anti-vaccine information across the social media platform.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez cites a report in The New Yorker about close ties between the Trump administration and the conservative cable news network.

A lawsuit claiming "an illegal and bad-faith takeover" of the Miss America Organization was withdrawn Monday for financial reasons.

A handful of physicians are using the show to teach medical students how to diagnose disease.

An early shaper of public radio’s sound and mission, Bill Siemering created shows that remain popular decades after their launch. Now he helps spread radio across the globe.

A new study shows that health-related searches spike in the week before a hospital visit — and how analyzing that data could improve patient care.

A winter of discontent for the Academy Awards will culminate Sunday in an Oscar ceremony that may lack a host but isn't missing intrigue.

A stranger lip-syncing to one of her songs in South Africa has propelled a Philadelphia singer to resume her career.

The National Enquirer's alleged attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with intimate photos could get the tabloid's parent company and top editors in deep legal trouble.

A Philadelphia production team released an online documentary on Shudder, tracking a century of black representation in the bloodiest of genres.

"Movers & Makers" intends to pull back the curtain, showing the region, people and places that you might not know about. It premieres Thursday night at 9 on WHYY-TV.

In Venezuela, where media is controlled by the government, figuring out what is truth, rumor or propaganda has always been difficult.

The Newseum is losing its stately glass-and-steel digs. The organization behind the journalism museum, The Freedom Forum, says it has reached a $372.5 million deal.

Advocates for a free press are challenging an Interior Department proposal to limit requests for access to public records under the federal Freedom of Information Act.