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J Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism 《New Media Old Media》 How Blogs and Social Media Agendas Relate and Differ from the Traditional Press. News today is increasingly a shared, social experience. Half of Americans say they rely on the people around them to find out at least some of the news they need to know. [1] Some 44% of online news users get news at least a few times a week through emails, automatic updates or posts from social networking sites. In 2009, Twitters monthly audience increased by 200%. [2] While most original reporting still comes from traditional journalists, technology makes it increasingly possible for the actions of citizens to influence a storys total impact. What types of news stories do consumers share and discuss the most? What issues do they have less interest in? What is the interplay of the various new media platforms? And how do their agendas compare with that of the mainstream press? To answer these questions, the Pew Research Centers Project for Excellence in Journalism has 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. We also have analyzed a year of the most viewed news-related videos on YouTube. Several clear trends emerge. Most broadly, the stories and issues that gain traction in social media differ substantially from those that lead in the mainstream press. But they also differ greatly from each other. Of the 29 weeks that we tracked all three social platforms, blogs, Twitter and YouTube shared the same top story just once. That was the week of June 15-19, when the protests that followed the Iranian elections led on all three. Each social media platform also seems to have its own personality and function. In the year studied, bloggers gravitated toward stories that elicited emotion, concerned individual or group rights or triggered ideological passion. Often t