Huge Gap Remains Between Mainstream Media and the Social Web [REPORT]

(From Mashable!, by Lauren Indvik)

The top stories in the mainstream press are markedly different than those that lead on social media platforms, a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism revealed.

Furthermore, what is popular on one social network rarely proves popular on another. In a 29 weeks that the Center tracked news items on blogs, Twitter and YouTube, the three platforms only shared the same top story once — the week of June 15-19, 2009, when Iranian citizens flocked to the streets to contest the results of the presidential election.

Let’s take a look at what was popular on the different social networking sites and how that compares to what gained traction with traditional news media in 2009.