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The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism has a new stuidy out that looks at the relationship between blogs and "old media."

New Media, Old Media: How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate and Differ from the Traditional Press

Technology makes it easier for readers/viewers to influence how a story can affect the large society.

The Pew Center looked at what types of news stories consumers share and discuss the most. And they looked at what issues were of most interest and how those stories and issues played out across various new media platforms.

And, for the ethical journalists among us, how the agendas of the bloggers compare with that of the mainstream press.

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism gathered a year of data on the top news stories discussed and linked to on blogs and social media pages and seven months’ worth on Twitter. They also analyzed a year of the most viewed news-related videos on YouTube.

The trends were interesting.