New Media Index: Phone Hacking Scandal Still Tops Twitter, But Other Topics Narrow the Gap
The phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom remained the subject of the most tweeted news links for the week of July 11-15, but it did not dominate as it did the previous week, accounting for 19 percent of links shared via Twitter, compared with 53 percent during the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
The phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom remained the subject of the most tweeted news links for the week of July 11-15, but it did not dominate as it did the previous week, accounting for 19 percent of links shared via Twitter, compared with 53 percent during the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
Meanwhile, the most viewed news and politics video on YouTube was footage of a tragic accident at a Texas Rangers Major League Baseball game, in which 39-year-old firefighter Shannon Stone lost his life.
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