Journalisted Weekly: Football, phone hacking, and Egyptian uprising

Journalisted is an independent, not-for-profit website built to make it easier for you, the public, to find out more about journalists and what they write about.

It is run by the Media Standards Trust, a registered charity set up to foster high standards in news on behalf of the public, and funded by donations from charitable foundations.

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 30 January

  • Sexist remarks by two football commentators and phone hacking received much coverage
  • Egyptian protests and the leaking of the ‘Palestine papers’ dominated headlines
  • Drugs from Britain used on US death row and the return of a Tunisian Islamist leader received little attention

Covered lots

Covered little

Political ups and downs (top ten by number of articles)

Celebrity vs serious

Who wrote a lot about…’protests in Egypt’

Jack Shenker – 13 articles (The Guardian), James Hider – 11 articles (The Times), Peter Beaumont – 10 articles (The Guardian), Roula Khalaf – 7 articles (Financial Times), Adrian Blomfield – 6 articles (Telegraph)

Long form journalism

More from the Media Standards Trust:

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