The phone-hacking scandal at and subsequent shuttering of News Corp.-owned British tabloid News of the World dominated news links shared via Twitter for the week of July 4-8, according to the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index, while the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was footage of the July 5 sandstorm in Phoenix, and the most shared news story in the blogosphere was a report that the White House is preparing to keep as m [...]

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