Journalisted Weekly: Breivik in court, Winehouse funeral and Olympics countdown

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Breivik in court, Winehouse funeral and Olympics countdown

for the week ending Sunday 31 July

  • Norway remains prominent in the aftermath of the terror attacks
  • Amy Winehouse (in the week of her funeral) and the Olympics (with a year to go) also covered lots
  • Cyprus’ credit rating, ITV’s profits and South Korean landslides covered little

Covered lots

  • Anders Behring Breivik, making his first court appearance after twin terror attacks in Norway, 513 articles
  • Olympic countdown, with one year until London 2012, 309 articles
  • Amy Winehouse, whose funeral took place this week, 250 articles
  • President Obama and House Speaker Boehner address the nation as the US debt crisis deepens, 175 articles

Covered little

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

Celebrity vs serious

Arab spring (countries & current leaders)

Who wrote a lot about…’Famine in Somalia’’

Mike Pflanz – 5 articles (Daily Telegraph), Mark Tran – 3 articles (The Guardian), Emily Dugan – 3 articles (The Independent), Daniel Howden– 3 articles (The Independent)

Long form journalism

Sign up to the campaign for a public inquiry into phone hacking at hackinginquiry.org
Visit the Media Standards Trust’s new site Churnalism.com – a public service for distinguishing journalism from churnalism
Churnalism.com ‘explore’ page is available for browsing press release sources alongside news outlets
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