New Media Index: Bloggers Share Bad News (Economy, Mortgage Crisis); Tweeters Share Good News (Rescue of Chilean Miners)

Economic issues, particularly the housing market, topped the list of the most-shared news links by bloggers, while the rescue of the formerly trapped miners from the northern Atacama desert in Chile accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was an unannounced visit to a London school by actor Johnny Depp after he received a letter from one of its students, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of Oct.