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For the week ending Sunday 17 October:

• 33 trapped Chilean miners received huge media coverage early in the week, reaching a peak after their successful rescue on Wednesday
• Political debate focused on UK defence cuts, cyber war, home terror, and natural disasters
• The death of asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga, while being forcibly repatriated, received little coverage

Covered lots

• The 33 Chilean miners, finally rescued after 69 days trapped underground, 287 articles
• The Liverpool FC buyout, sold to US company New England Sports on Friday, 284 articles
• UK defence cuts, eventually agreed after weeks of sometimes acrimonious wrangling, 236 articles

Covered little

• The death of asylum seeker Jimmy Mubenga, with suspected mishandling by security officials enforcing his deportation, 20 articles
• Two miners in Ecuador killed and two more trapped by a cave-in on Friday, 14 articles
• A Somali-American, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, sworn in as Somalia’s new Prime Minister, 1 article

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

• David Cameron: 635 articles (+7 per cent on previous week)
• George Osborne: 317 articles (-39 per cent on previous week)
• Vince Cable: 246 articles (+92 per cent on previous week)
• Nick Clegg: 200 articles (+30 per cent on previous week)
• Ed Miliband: 160 articles (-44 per cent on previous week)
• Gordon Brown: 143 articles (-15 per cent on previous week)
• William Hague: 124 articles (-7 per cent on previous week)
• Tony Blair: 121 articles (-7 per cent on previous week)
• Liam Fox 90 articles (-8 per cent on previous week)
• Alan Johnson: 77 articles (-44 per cent on previous week)

Celebrity vs serious

• Russell Brand, with hype over his film and marriage to girlfriend Kate Perry, 58 articles vs. Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon, 54 articles
• Angelina Jolie, currently in Budapest directing her first film, 35 articles vs. an underground blast initially killing 26 Chinese miners and trapping 11 others, 21 articles
• Justin Timberlake, with hype over his role in the Facebook film ‘The Social Network’, 29 articles vs. an unnamed British aid worker kidnapped in Somalia, 12 articles

Who wrote a lot about…’Chilean Miners’

Carl Markham – 13 articles (The Independent), Martin Fletcher – 11 articles (The Times), Fiona Govan – 10 articles (The Telegraph), Rory Carroll – 9 articles (The Guardian), Jude Webber – 9 articles (Financial Times), Guy Adams – 5 articles (The Independent)

Long form journalism

• 5,418 words: ‘Caitlin Moran meets Keith Richards’, Caitlin Moran, The Times, 15th October 2010
• 4,194 words: ‘Resurrection! The debt we all owe Chile’s inspirational miners’, Peter Stanford, the Independent, 17th October 2010
• 3,831 words: ‘Shakespeare’s sonnets by Don Paterson’, Don Paterson, the Guardian, 16th October 2010