New Media Index: WikiLeaks Maintains Hold on Bloggers; Mashable Lists Tweeted

The WikiLeaks controversy continued to dominate news links shared by bloggers during the week of Dec. 20-24, while a column by Mashable writer Vadim Lavrusik predicting 10 major developments in news media for 2011 accounted for the most Tweeted news links, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage from the Dec. 14 shooting at a Florida school board meeting, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.

Julian Assange and company accounted for 35 percent of news links shared via the blogosphere, followed by: the repeal of the don’t ask, don’t tell policy in the U.S.

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