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Each week Journalisted produces a summary of the most covered news stories, most active journalists and those topics falling off the news agenda, using its database of UK journalists and news sources.
for the week ending Sunday 16 January
- Floods in Brisbane and shootings in Arizona dominated the news during the week
- Protests leading to the ousting of Tunisia’s government received much coverage over the weekend
- Northern & Shell, Stuxnet, and controversy over Welsh organ donation received little coverage
Covered lots
Covered little
- Renewed controversy over the Stuxnet cyber virus, which attacked Iran’s nuclear programme last year, 8 articles
- Northern & Shell, the group that owns the Express, Star and OK! pulls out of the UK press self-regulation system, 7 articles
- The Welsh Assembly Government calling for a ‘soft opt-out’ policy for organ donation and raising controversy over human rights, 4 articles
Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)
Celebrity vs serious
- Colin Firth, winning a Golden Globe and tipped for an Oscar for The King’s Speech, 90 articles vs. flash floods and landslides in Brazil, killing over five hundred whilst thousands fled their homes, 49 articles
- Katie ‘Jordan’ Price, getting divorced from her husband Alex Reid, 46 articles vs. floods in Sri Lanka, killing over thirty people and displacing 30,000 from their homes, 33 articles
- Keira Knightley, splitting with her long term boyfriend Rupert Friend, 21 articles vs. the collapse of Lebanon’s government, as the Hezbollah-allied opposition pulled out of coalition, 20 articles
Who wrote a lot about…’Tunisia’
Richard Spencer – 9 articles (Telegraph), James Bones – 8 articles (The Times), Roula Khalaf – 7 articles (Financial Times), Heba Saleh – 5 articles (Financial Times), Colin Freeman (Telegraph) – 4 articles, Angelique Chrisafis – 4 articles (The Guardian)
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